What is essential in the sensuous-perceptible is not that which separates the senses from one another, but that which unites them; unites them among themselves; unites them with the entire (even with the non-sensuous) experience in ourselves; and with all the external world that there is to be experienced. - Erich von Hornbostel
Author: Carlos Velasco
Experimental psychologist.
Digital Biscuit 2015
Digital Biscuit, Ireland’s Film and Technology Forum brings together filmmakers, creatives and technologist to learn, collaborate and get inspired. This years speakers include Soprano’s creator David Chase, film director Michel Gondry, Experimental Psychologist Charles Spence, and cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel among many others. Book your tickets now to join leading international talent and technologists in Dublin’s… Continue reading Digital Biscuit 2015
The Moon
From psychology to business
Alejandro Salgado (@tiempoasm) and I were invited this week to give a talk at PsyNAppS society, Oxford University, on our experience as entrepreneurs in Psychology. We have worked together in many research and business projects for about 8 years now. If you would like to know more about the talk, here is PsyNApps' blog post and review: From psychology to business:… Continue reading From psychology to business
Construya experiencias a partir del sonido del envase
En general, la industria del marketing y el diseño, hasta ahora, se ha enfocado principalmente (aunque no exclusivamente) en potenciar la experiencia del consumidor a través de la información visual. En nuestro último artículo publicado en El Empaque, análisamos el potencial del sonido en las experiencias de consumo, principalmente, en el desarrollo de empaques.Ver el artículo acá:… Continue reading Construya experiencias a partir del sonido del envase
[C]lick your screen: probing the senses online
The Experiential Society and the Crossmodal Research Laboratory are organizing the talk "[C]lick your screen: probing the senses online" by Dr. Andy Woods (@AndyTWoods), next Monday at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. Below, you can find the abstract and Dr. Andy Woods' bio. Abstract We are at the cusp of some far-reaching technological advances… Continue reading [C]lick your screen: probing the senses online
Sensory qualities speak to one another
“By means of the language of resemblance, sensory qualities speak to one another and, as it were, talk over their common feeling; and by the same language of resemblance, their voices carry beyond the sensory realm, invading qualities that are not primarily sensorial, again to share, in metaphor, a common feeling” – Lawrence Marks (1978,… Continue reading Sensory qualities speak to one another
Welcome to the experiment: Universal Synaesthesia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0e4T4VFxic&feature=youtu.be "We all make surprising connections between the senses, connections between sights, sounds, smells, shapes, and textures that we didn’t realize were there -like synaesthesia in that these connections are surprising when you first hear about them, but unlike synaesthesia in that they can be shared. Their existence and documentation has profound implications for everything… Continue reading Welcome to the experiment: Universal Synaesthesia
Universal synaesthesia
Universal suprasensory attributes
Given [Külpe's] notion [of universal suprasensory attributes], we might say that the several senses display a fundamental unity in part because a class of suprasensory attributes pertains to sensations on all modalities. - Lawrence Marks in "The unity of the senses: Interrelations among the modalities"
Carlos Velasco 