Curiosity Daily Podcast: Why People Protest According to Psychology, How Scientists Made Blind People “See” Shapes, and May’s Curiosity Challenge
Learn about why people protest and riot, according to social psychology; and how scientists stimulated the brains of blind people to make them “see” shapes. Then, test your knowledge with this month’s edition of the Curiosity Challenge.
June 12, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Why social psychology says people protest and riot by Kelsey Donk
- Klandermans, B. (2013). Demand and Supply of Protest. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm063
- Fisher, N. (2020, May 29). Psychological Research Explains Why People Protest. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicolefisher/2020/05/29/the-psychology-of-protests-reveals-why-americans-are-ready-for-action/
- Stott, C., & Radburn, M. (2019, November 15). The psychology of riots – and why it’s never just mindless violence. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-psychology-of-riots-and-why-its-never-just-mindless-violence-125676
- Rainie, L., & Perrin, A. (2019, July 22). Key findings about Americans’ declining trust in government and each other. Pew Research Center; Pew Research Center. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/22/key-findings-about-americans-declining-trust-in-government-and-each-other/
Scientists made blind and sighted people "see" shapes by stimulating the visual cortex by Cameron Duke
- Beauchamp, M. S., Oswalt, D., Sun, P., Foster, B. L., Magnotti, J. F., Niketeghad, S., Pouratian, N., Bosking, W. H., & Yoshor, D. (2020). Dynamic Stimulation of Visual Cortex Produces Form Vision in Sighted and Blind Humans. Cell, 181(4), 774-783.e5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.033
- Brindley, G. S., & Lewin, W. S. (1968). The sensations produced by electrical stimulation of the visual cortex. The Journal of Physiology, 196(2), 479–493. https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.1968.sp008519
- Retinotopic Mapping. (n.d.). Fourier.Eng.Hmc.Edu. Retrieved May 15, 2020, from http://fourier.eng.hmc.edu/e180/lectures/v1/node3.html
- Roelfsema, P. R. (2020). Writing to the Mind’s Eye of the Blind. Cell, 181(4), 758–759. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.014
- Dynamic stimulation of the visual cortex allows blind and sighted people to “see” shapes. (2020). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/05/200514115828.htm
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