We See Only What We Look For

We see only what we look for: imaging cardiac inflammation.

Grade 1 pressure ulcers: we only see what we know.

An expert panel was established to formulate aconsensus statement on Skin Changes At Life’s End(SCALE). The panel consists of 18 internationallyrecognized key opinion leaders including clinicians,caregivers, medical researchers, legal experts,academicians, a medical writer and leaders ofprofessional organizations. The inaugural forum washeld on April 4-6, 2008 in...

On What We See

This paper investigates the idea that perception can be, at once, a mode of direct awareness of the world and an encounter, in the first instance, with mere appearances. In developing this point, I introduce a sensorimotor account of perception according to which the senses are ways of exploring the environment mediated by different patterns of sensorimotor contingency (i.e. by the distinctive ...

What we don't see.

Copyright © 2012 Massachusetts Medical Society. Sixty-eight years after the inaugural issue of The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, Sir William Osler introduced the term “pediatrics.”1 Although “diseases peculiar to children” had figured in Benjamin Rush’s lectures at the University of Pennsylvania since 1789, most physicians in the early 19th century did not recognize children as a...

Knowing What We See

Have you ever wondered how you know what you see? For example, when you see a round, red object at the grocery store, how do you know that it is called an apple and that it can be eaten? This type of knowledge is called semantic memory. Semantic memories are learned over a lifetime and can be accessed without remembering a specific experience. In other words, you do not need to remember details...