Showing posts with label neuology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neuology. Show all posts
Friday, November 01, 2019
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
Hypocognition
Unknown Unknowns: The Problem of Hypocognition
We wander about the unknown terrains of life, complacent about what we know and oblivious to what we miss
In 1806, entrepreneur Frederic Tudor sailed to the island of Martinique with a precious cargo. He had harvested ice from frozen Massachusetts rivers and expected to make a tidy profit selling it to tropical customers. There was only one problem: the islanders had never seen ice. They had never experienced a cold drink, never tasted a pint of ice cream. Refrigeration was not a celebrated innovation, but an unknown concept. In their eyes, there was no value in Tudor’s cargo. His sizable investment melted away unappreciated and unsold in the Caribbean heat.
Tudor’s ice tale contains an important point about human affairs. Often, human fate rests not on what people know but what they fail to know. Often, life’s outcomes are determined by hypocognition.
What is hypocognition? If you don’t know, you’ve just experienced it.
Thursday, July 06, 2017
Learning With Music
Listening to music while learning a new physical skill can help increase connectivity in the white matter tract linking auditory and motor regions of the brain, a new study reports.
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