What is woo-woo “energy”? A conversational theory…
July 27, 2017 § 6 Comments
One evening I was having dinner with a research biologist. For some reason we arrived ar the topic of woo woo ‘energy’ and he was highly skeptical of the term, obviously. Wine in hand, I took up the challenge to explain it.
What has happened since I visited The Affective Science lab, Boston 2010
June 19, 2017 § Leave a comment
Soma}News – Issue 6
January 31, 2015 § Leave a comment
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.
Soma}News – Issue 5
November 10, 2014 § Leave a comment
Soma-related emotion news from Sept/Oct 2014. Connections to art, tech, memory, smell, touch, memory, pain and more…
“What sex and birth look like through an MRI machine” is a collection of Magnetic Resonance Imagery. Beautiful and captivating. (NSFW)
Soma}News – July/August
September 10, 2014 § 1 Comment
Soma-related emotion news. Connections to tech, memory, smell, touch, fashion, stand-up comedy and more…
Soma}News – May/June
August 5, 2014 § Leave a comment
A round-up of soma-related emotion research and connections to mobile tech, media, crossing senses…
Taste metaphors engage the emotional brain
Soma}News – March/April – Part 2
May 7, 2014 § Leave a comment
Continued round-up of soma-related research and connections to emotion, sound, morality, mind, soul, health and contagions. Plus this edition’s featured lexicon entry: “wu-wei”.
The higher the sound in pitch, the higher we perceive it to be in space.
Soma}News – March/April – Part 1
May 5, 2014 § Leave a comment
A round-up of soma-related emotion research and connections to facial expression, pain management, body in space and technology. Plus two upsides of sadness.
OLED displays show images of eyes that reflect engagement and emotion.
Soma}News – Jan/Feb 2014
February 28, 2014 § 1 Comment
Hello! Today I’m kicking off a more newsy approach to the E}V blog reflecting ongoing interests in the overlaps between art/design, science, dataviz and the body. Your comments, shares or suggestions are warmly welcome.
This Finnish research project about the body and self-reported emotions was the main interest in January. See my review here.
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“Bodily Map of Emotions” – Research paper (Nummenmaa, Glerean, Hari, Hietanen)
January 27, 2014 § 4 Comments
A team of Finnish researchers Nummenmaa, Glerean, Hari, Hietanen recently published a paper “Bodily Map of Emotions”. It outlines how people describe their emotion related body sensations. This blog post responds to the work in the context of it’s own research ‘Emotionally}Vague‘, (video presentation here). « Read the rest of this entry »
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