Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

How we portray and engage with the world around us is fundamentally influenced by our sense of vision. The visual area is located in about one-third of the cortical surface of the primates. Vision loss, either at birth or much later in life, affects how we perceive the world. It is intriguing to know how the brain of sighted and blind individuals differ. In the  paper  "The nature of consciousness in the visually deprived brain," the authors  Ron Kupers ,  Pietro Pietrini ,  Emiliano Ricciardi , and  Maurice Ptito  discuss various topics pertaining to the nature of consciousness in those without vision. This research answered an important question: What can we learn about the functional development of the human brain in physiological conditions by studying blindness?    (Source:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00019 ) There are some findings from research on animals as well as from psychophysical and functional brain imaging studies ...

Today, I read the article on psychologicalscience.org. The title is " The Illusion of Multitasking Boosts Performance ". At first, I thought it argues for single-task at once, but after reading it, I found that it is not. It actually supports multi-tasking, but in the sense that the worker "believes" the work he is working on is a combination of multi-tasks. The original paper published in Psychological Science has a title  " The Illusion of Multitasking and Its Positive Effect on Performance ".  In my opinion, the original article's title is accurate, but the press release reveals part of the story and actually distorted the original meaning of the article. The reader actually got an illusion that multi-tasking is producing a negative effect. Jian Wu