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Emotional Development focuses on emotion and
nonverbal communication. Images are faces,
non-threatening animals, peaceful scenes, and signs of
intergenerational synchrony in both humans and animals. |
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Young Faces: Emotionally expressive children, scenes
of safety with young animals and their parents, or young animals
approaching the camera. Images are revealed one section or panel at a
time, until the entire image is shown (mosaic mode). [350 photos]
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Where’s Wanda in the Animal Kingdom: Images with
Wanda the butterfly who we try to spot as she hides amid a variety of
animals. She’s very shy and often camouflages herself! [300 images]
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Where’s Wanda around Children: Images of Wanda the
butterfly hovering near expressive eyes, mouths, or at the end of a
child’s gaze. [300 images]
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Where’s Wanda in Nature: Wanda the butterfly hiding
amid peaceful and serene scenes of nature. [450 images]
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Name that Emotion: Ekman-like faces designed for
children. The 6 major emotions (fear, anxiety, anger, surprise,
happiness, sadness) are expressed by teenagers, young kids, and the
occasional adult. [150 sets]
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Right Brain Exercise emphasizes layers of
visual perception and the arbitrary semantic divisions of the world
around us. Humor and metaphor-based exercises are included to develop
the right cerebral hemisphere. |
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- Whatzit: Skewed (non-canonical)
views of everyday objects. The two hemispheres must work together to
identify common household items from atypical perspectives and extreme
close-ups. [275 photos]
- Focus: Places or
objects that are shown out of focus, then incrementally brought into
focus. [75 photographs]
- Zoom out: Photos begin as extreme
close-ups; the camera pulls back to reveal the entire subject. [225
photos]
- Om: Beautiful and
luscious words (e.g., ethereal, callisto) or non-words (e.g.,
satellania, quoxidian, amanzi) are presented against backdrop images
that extend or disambiguate their meaning. This set juxtaposes
strengths of the left hemisphere (verbal) against strengths of the
right hemisphere (holistic). [350 images]
- Jokes: 40 jokes set
against images consistent with the humor.
- Oracle: Images
that allow us to ask the Great Oracle any question we want and to bask
in her extraordinary wisdom (i.e., a version of magic eight-ball)
[165 images]
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Perception Exercise centers on conscious and
non-conscious visual perception. The role of color (cortical) along with
resolution and form stability (subcortical and cortical) are explored
by this collection, along with conscious exploration and the effect of
atypicality and novelty on meaning. |
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- The Color of Art:
Works of modern art in which color is added incrementally to a
masterpiece. Paintings begin as dark and light versions of
themselves and slowly transform into their final form. [150 images]
- The Color of the World:
Photographs of nature and people in which color is added
incrementally. [150 photos]
- Places in Focus:
75 sets of images of unusual scenes and events shown out of focus,
then brought into focus.
- Art in Focus:
Well-known works of arts which are brought into focus. [25 images]
- Unstable Art:
Painted portraits that transform (morph) into other works of art or to
real people. [150 images]
- Visual Exploration:
Scenes (artwork, animals, or places) are explored in a series of
selected close-ups followed by the entire scene. [125 images]
- Where’s Wanda in Art:
Works of art in which Wanda the butterfly hides, sometimes merging
into the canvas itself. Be warned - she can be very shy around the
masters and hard to spot! [450 images]
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Serenity focuses
on the extremely vast, the infinitesimal, and the verbal freedom in
between.
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- Universe:
Photographs of the larger word, from galaxies to sky to ocean. [275
photos]
- Unusual Beauty: Photographs
of nature in its most striking attire. [450 photos]
- Sayings: 120 humorous
sayings to ponder.
- Ancient Wisdom: 300
phrases from Tao, Gnostic, and Judeo-Christian traditions.
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Games
for Adults are designed to enable Neurofeedback training during
mathematical processing, response inhibition, as well as visual and
verbal perception. |
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- Mathematics: 100
addition and subtraction problems with answers (e.g., 2 -3 +3 = 2).
- Stroop: Versions of the Stroop test in
which the color of a font is to be said aloud while inhibiting the
meaning of the word. This is a frontal lobe test (response inhibition).
For instance, the word “green” may appear in a blue font and we should
say aloud “blue” and inhibit what we read (the word “green”). [100
images]
- Masterpieces: Modern art
paintings, revealed randomly (mosaic mode). [450 images]
- Unusual places:
Photographs of nature and places. [450 photos]
- Word race: 100 sets of
words in which we must decide or guess which of two words is longer as
they are revealed letter by letter. This tests verbal perception,
tapping on our entire lexicon to compare and discard likely word
candidates as the words are slowly revealed.
- Where’s Wanda in Masterpieces:
Works of art in which Wanda the butterfly hides, sometimes merging
into the paint itself. Be warned - she can be very shy around the
masters and hard to spot! [900 images]
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Games
for Kids are
designed for children. Reward centers on animals, bugs, and household
items. |
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- Animals in Focus:
Photos of animals shown out of focus, then incrementally brought
into focus. [75 photos]
- Animals Everywhere!:
Photos of animals in the wild (a few in captivity) presented in mosaic
mode. [250 photos]
- Bug race: Races between
butterflies, ladybugs, ants, and the occasional hungry spider. [100
variations]
- Road race: Races between
double-decker buses, cars, and trucks. [100 variations]
- Where’s Wanda in the World:
Images of Wanda the butterfly hiding in unusual places. [450 images]
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