"Mother, can't you see I'm burning?" A few remarks on what we are today.

What are you doing' im Elfenbeinturm? - Microblogging im universitären Einsatz

You are what your mother ate.

First brought to scientific attention several decades ago by the report of a dose-response, inverse relation between birth weight and adult risk of cardiometabolic diseases (1), evidence that early nutrition, stress, and other similar environmental exposures can have lingering impacts on later health outcomes has now been widely documented in human populations and in experimental animal model w...

Why are you here to see the doctor today?

Knock, knock. Take a breath. Hand on the knob. Meet and greet. Then comes the line: “So, why are you here to see the doctor today?” Behind every door lies a story. Knock, knock. So, why are you here to see the doctor today? The patient explains that he wishes to have bariatric surgery. I discuss the risks and benefits. I talk about the paperwork to be filled out. I notice in the chart that he h...

I see what you are saying

The motor cortex in the brain tracks lip movements to help with speech perception.

On What We See

This paper investigates the idea that perception can be, at once, a mode of direct awareness of the world and an encounter, in the first instance, with mere appearances. In developing this point, I introduce a sensorimotor account of perception according to which the senses are ways of exploring the environment mediated by different patterns of sensorimotor contingency (i.e. by the distinctive ...