CBC's other ingenious programming that was spawned by Brand New Waves is actually www.CBCradio3.com An on-line, flash-programmed, media-zine, complete with streaming audio of candian underground and indepedent artists, as well as live concertns, streaming film, photography, animations, and other cool things of interest to the hipster and cultural elite alike.
I believe Zed is affiliated with Radio3 somehow.
I think the benefits of a public broadcaster is the ability to go out on a limb, and trailblaze; not just in content, but in the form of media. While the big media just keep buying up more radio stations and tv stations, and airing the same content across them, the public broadcasters are diversifying, and bringing new forms of media to a ever-more homoganized market.
Personally I think we should cut all their funding since they run advertisements just like any other station
The CBC suffers from two sided criticism; if they don't air commercials, or big Hollywood programming they get criticized for looking unprofessional and being irrelevant. If they DO air commercials and big Hollywood progamming then they get criticized for using up public tax dollars for what private media could accomplish more easily.
They can't win.
What a lot of people don't realize is that not only does the CBC play a valuable role within Canada (as all good public broadcasters should), but they actually usually provide programming and use methods that are miles ahead of private media.
a good example of this, is the radio "station" http://www.cbcradio3.com/, which displays mostly Canadian, independent, underground music, art, photography, writing, and other wonderful things, all well picking up a few Webby Awards http://www.webbyawards.com/ along the way.
IAAfEAAE (I am an fMRI enthusiast and aspiring expert).
Hug Life, you clearly have polarized your response to one extreme of a highly controversial topic. The faces-vs-expertise (Kanwisher et others vs Triesman et others) debate is far from solved, which is why this experiment I feel is so interesting. Perhaps this experiment will help to elucidate how the brain processes faces, birds, cows, or greebles differently.
Don't forget, responses in the FFA to non-face stimuli are less than optimal. What the hell does a non-optimal response represent anyway? If anyone knows the answer to that, I'd be highly interested in hear it.
The importance of this finding is more than just obvious. Think of it in terms of how someone would create a face-recognition system within a computer (a surprisingly difficult task). Do you have one software/hardware module that processes everything, recognizes features, combines them into faces, recognizes the faces, and then names them, or do you have multiple? If you do create multiple modules for different functions, how many do you create?
This study is really important, because for a long time it has been known that an area of the brain is associated with the recognition of faces (the second area they describe).
But no one really knows what a face is! I mean, intuitively we all know what a face is, but how the hell does our brain know?!
This study seems to suggest that faces are processed in stages.
And the first stage they describe isn't just simply the processing of light, it relates to features of faces. A very important distinction.
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CBC's other ingenious programming that was spawned by Brand New Waves is actually www.CBCradio3.com An on-line, flash-programmed, media-zine, complete with streaming audio of candian underground and indepedent artists, as well as live concertns, streaming film, photography, animations, and other cool things of interest to the hipster and cultural elite alike.
I believe Zed is affiliated with Radio3 somehow.
I think the benefits of a public broadcaster is the ability to go out on a limb, and trailblaze; not just in content, but in the form of media. While the big media just keep buying up more radio stations and tv stations, and airing the same content across them, the public broadcasters are diversifying, and bringing new forms of media to a ever-more homoganized market.
Long live the CBC.
Personally I think we should cut all their funding since they run advertisements just like any other station
The CBC suffers from two sided criticism; if they don't air commercials, or big Hollywood programming they get criticized for looking unprofessional and being irrelevant. If they DO air commercials and big Hollywood progamming then they get criticized for using up public tax dollars for what private media could accomplish more easily.
They can't win.
What a lot of people don't realize is that not only does the CBC play a valuable role within Canada (as all good public broadcasters should), but they actually usually provide programming and use methods that are miles ahead of private media.
a good example of this, is the radio "station" http://www.cbcradio3.com/, which displays mostly Canadian, independent, underground music, art, photography, writing, and other wonderful things, all well picking up a few Webby Awards http://www.webbyawards.com/ along the way.
IAAfEAAE (I am an fMRI enthusiast and aspiring expert).
Hug Life, you clearly have polarized your response to one extreme of a highly controversial topic. The faces-vs-expertise (Kanwisher et others vs Triesman et others) debate is far from solved, which is why this experiment I feel is so interesting. Perhaps this experiment will help to elucidate how the brain processes faces, birds, cows, or greebles differently.
Don't forget, responses in the FFA to non-face stimuli are less than optimal. What the hell does a non-optimal response represent anyway? If anyone knows the answer to that, I'd be highly interested in hear it.
The importance of this finding is more than just obvious. Think of it in terms of how someone would create a face-recognition system within a computer (a surprisingly difficult task). Do you have one software/hardware module that processes everything, recognizes features, combines them into faces, recognizes the faces, and then names them, or do you have multiple? If you do create multiple modules for different functions, how many do you create?
This study is really important, because for a long time it has been known that an area of the brain is associated with the recognition of faces (the second area they describe).
But no one really knows what a face is! I mean, intuitively we all know what a face is, but how the hell does our brain know?!
This study seems to suggest that faces are processed in stages.
And the first stage they describe isn't just simply the processing of light, it relates to features of faces. A very important distinction.