Christof Koch: Attentiveness

In his 2005 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture, neurobiologist Christof Koch (The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach) demonstrated four types of visual misperceptions that result from the brain’s imperfect visual processing capabilities. From a general semantics perspective, this is part of what Korzybski included in what he termed the abstracting process. Used with the author’s permission.

Christof Koch: Change Blindness

In his 2005 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture, neurobiologist Christof Koch (The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach) demonstrated four types of visual misperceptions that result from the brain’s imperfect visual processing capabilities. From a general semantics perspective, this is part of what Korzybski included in what he termed the abstracting process. Used with the author’s permission.

Christof Koch: Afterimages

In his 2005 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture, neurobiologist Christof Koch (The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach) demonstrated four types of visual misperceptions that result from the brain’s imperfect visual processing capabilities. From a general semantics perspective, this is part of what Korzybski included in what he termed the abstracting process. Used with the author’s permission.

Christof Koch: Motion-Induced Blindness

In his 2005 J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Lecture, neurobiologist Christof Koch (The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological Approach) demonstrated four types of visual misperceptions that result from the brain’s imperfect visual processing capabilities. From a general semantics perspective, this is part of what Korzybski included in what he termed the abstracting process. Used with the author’s permission.

Benham Disc

While this recorded version of the demonstration is not as effective as a live viewing, you can get the idea … where are the colors and the rings?

Listening Exercise

A promo for the 2008 women’s NCAA basketball championship serves as the basis for a listening exercise that demonstrates how we learn to hear.

Where is Obscenity?

Is “obscenity” in words? In language generally? Where exactly is it? NOTE: Some might find this objectionable, although there are no “obscene” words, so far as I can tell.