Soma}News – Issue 6

Soma-related emotion news from Nov/Dec 2014. Connections to art, tech, memory, smell, touch, memory, pain and more…

People with disabilities empowered through mind-generated art: Jody Xiong.

“Chinese artist jody xiong has collaborated with 16 handicapped people — recruited via social media — in the artistic and technological realisation of the ‘mind art’ installation.” Design Boom

 How Metaphors Make Us Fall in Love With Designs 

Smell / Taste / Touch

• Sweet music or sour notes? Test will tell
• How do you really feel about the cake? Emotional awareness promotes healthier eating

Lesia Trubat’s ballet shoes electronically trace the movements of dancers

Emotion

• Mothers nurture emotions in girls over boys, new study finds
• Why ‘I’m so happy I could cry’ makes sense
• Study investigates why sadness is the longest-lasting emotion
• Shame on us: Toward defining basic emotions
• Want to distract someone? An emotional face might work
• Being humble: Research shows E.B. White was right in Charlotte’s Web

Stills from Lucy McRae’s short film MAKE YOUR MAKER

Tech / Haptics

• Best sensory experience for learning a dance sequence
• Dance choreography improves girls’ computational skills
• Paying attention makes touch-sensing brain cells fire rapidly and in sync
• “Wearable technologies”, critical feature in ICON design magazine

Pain / Depression

• Cold-induced pain linked to the garlic, mustard receptor
• A new test measures analytical thinking linked to depression, fueling the idea that depression may be a form of adaptation
• Laughing gas shows promise for severe depression, pilot study suggests
• How high-tech, temporary tattoos want to hack your skin

Perception / Experience

• How curiosity changes the brain to enhance learning
• Meditation, support groups: Clear new evidence for mind-body connection demonstrated in study, researchers show
• Brain’s response to threat silenced when we are reminded of being loved and cared for
• Ads communicate message in as little as tenth of a second, helped by color

The Bigger Picture

• Why are consumers willing to spend more money on ethical products?
• The doctor stitching together medicine and art
• New technology allows medical professionals to step into their patients’ shoes
• Disgust leads people to lie and cheat; Cleanliness promotes ethical behavior
• Liberals are more emotion-driven than conservatives
• New airport security screening method more than 20 times as successful at detecting deception
• Virtual bodyswapping diminishes people’s negative biases about others

 Anything I missed? Leave a comment!

via ScienceDaily, DesignBoom, ButDoesItFloat, MedicalNewsToday, Icon, The Daily Dot,

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