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Mar 5 2009

The Blueprint of a Listener | Part 1 of 3 | Stimulus Processing And Decoding

by admin on March 5, 2009

This one is a bit dense… So although it isn’t terribly lengthy I decided to break it up into three parts so you don’t fry your brain on it Although this is extremely foundational information, I believe it is important to know what exactly is going on in a person’s brain while you are talking to them. Hopefully this will give you a different view of the neurology that is transpiring as you speak… So let’s get right into it. The most renowned and referenced model of the listener is known as the Geschwind-Wernicke’s model which proposes that there are [...]

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Feb 19 2009

David J. Parnell’s Professional Series on Sensory Acuity | Part 1 of 3 | Attentional Processes

by admin on February 19, 2009

Literally, the most difficult challenge in communication is in ACCURATELY representing and EXPLAINING the concept or feeling that you are currently experiencing. Without extensive analysis and research, the average person is completely unaware of how INACCURATELY they are communicating their thoughts. Thanks to evolved processes such as heuristics, metaphor and analogy, stereotypes and predictive categorization that occur during experiential and language processing, we are still able to make functional sense of each others communication. Suffice it to say though, that when you are describing a night out with the girls… The visual, auditory and somatic/kinesthetic representations that your mother is [...]

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