Kodak said it chose to invest in ememories.com because of its business model, which tries to stimulate picture taking by promoting new uses for photos.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.07902.001 Perceiving an object or picture stimulates activity in the regions of the brain that make up the visual system.
The view of sky and water through rocks stimulates the unconscious; the picture is like something you have dreamt.
And everywhere state-run banks gained market share after the 2007-08 crisis as private lenders retreated and governments tried to stimulate their economies.Today the picture looks very different.
"She set out to arouse the indignation of her contributors; our collection was intended to present a truthful picture and stimulate [discussion]," said Jean Moorcroft Wilson, who worked on the project with her husband Cecil Woolf.
On the computer screen that was perceived by the eye that projects to the hemisphere ipsilateral to the stimulating electrode, the familiar pictures were rearranged in a novel configuration (Fig. 4).
More of the neuroscientific scoop: When you put words within pictures, your brain immediately perks up in an effort to make sense of how/why these words relate to the picture -- thereby stimulating more neuron activity.
First, we used a written instruction before each block of stimuli that aimed to engage participants to think about eating the food in the picture, or to stimulate self-schematic processing of their own body in comparison to pictures of thin women.
The findings further show that descriptions of background in text interact with a picture of consumption background to stimulate mental imagery, depending on SOP (visualize vs. verbalizer).
Once again, it has taken the power of the media and iconic pictures to stimulate action by our most powerful leaders.
