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10 Jan 2010, 11:43 pm

Are there any Science geeks here?

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11 Jan 2010, 12:21 am

Interested, yes...obsessed...not me.
But I'm likely a minority here...

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11 Jan 2010, 1:00 am

It depends, Science shows a lot more than cannot be proven. Some want to be on the winning team, other question all.

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11 Jan 2010, 3:49 am

I have it on good faith that the aspie named Scientist did not choose her screen name ironically.

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11 Jan 2010, 8:25 am

I am.

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11 Jan 2010, 9:56 am

although i work as a scientist i would say i am obsessed with inventing things.

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11 Jan 2010, 5:00 pm

I am. I think physics is just about the best thing human beings do, besides piloting aircraft.

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11 Jan 2010, 5:13 pm

I am obsessed with biology, but mathematics is even better.

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11 Jan 2010, 9:12 pm

Orwell wrote:

I am obsessed with biology, but mathematics is even better.

I agree. Mathematics is the best mind game in town.

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11 Jan 2010, 10:34 pm

I love physics.

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11 Jan 2010, 11:23 pm

I like sciences. Back when I was a kid I was obsessed with it, less today but I still like it.

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12 Jan 2010, 3:22 pm

The scientific method ftw.

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12 Jan 2010, 4:57 pm

I wouldn't call science my obsession.
My username just describes who I am

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12 Jan 2010, 7:27 pm

Asmodeus wrote:

The scientific method ftw.

LOL

. I'm a math grad student, so I sort of agree with this.

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12 Jan 2010, 9:15 pm

Scientist wrote:

I wouldn't call science my obsession.
My username just describes who I am

What is psychophysics?

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15 Jan 2010, 11:16 am

ruveyn wrote:

Scientist wrote:

I wouldn't call science my obsession.
My username just describes who I am

What is psychophysics?

Nice that you're asking

Dictionary:
psychophysics (sī'kō-fĭz'ĭks)
n. (used with a sing. verb)
The branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between physical stimuli and sensory response.

Psychophysics is a discipline within psychology that investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and their subjective correlates, or percepts. Psychophysics has been described as “the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation” or, more completely, as “the analysis of perceptual processes by studying the effect on a subject’s experience or behaviour of systematically varying the properties of a stimulus along one or more physical dimensions.”

We (psychophysicists) conduct experiments in which we manipulate physical stimuli and measure participants' percepts in their behaviour: in responses, reaction times, movement times, movement trajectories.

Psychophysics is the discipline of my PhD project.
My project is on visual and haptic/tactile information processing and motor control.

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