The internet shall provide.. eventually.

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I'm eagerly awaiting the next issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, for two articles that are currently in press:

"Whatever does not kill us: Cumulative lifetime adversity, vulnerability, and resilience", Seery, Mark et. al.

"Feeling the Future: Experimental evidence for anomalous retroactive influences on cognition and affect.", Bem, D.J.
The pre-publication grapevine has it that this one takes standard psychological experiments, like those demonstrating the priming effect, time-reverses them, and gets results which are better than chance. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.


In other news, yesterday's bio class took a long diversion through the ear, nerve cells, and hearing. It leads me to wonder whether my difficulty deciphering words spoken during white noise or other human voices isn't due to something so simple as slow habituation to the background noise.

Curiosity then had me wander around wikipedia to other sensory oddities, where I discovered that there's a word for palinopsia and a phrase for visual snow. I've had both for as long as I can remember, but have only rarely been able to successfully describe them to anyone else.

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I always thought the 'can't pick out sounds with other sounds around' thing was linked to auditory processing disorder... but that's just my at-home Internet research psychiatry knowledge. Either way, I have it as well, though I don't experience palinopsia, and I only get visual snow when I stand up too fast or something similar.

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APD is an umbrella term for people whose hearing is normal but whose sound-processing is not. It covers any number of neurological differences that lead to a similar set of results.