![]() The Art of Limbitless Limbitless Solutions’ bionic arms highlight each child’s passion and personality. He takes this as a sign that “music may increase neurogenesis in the brain.” His research has found that “canaries stop singing every autumn when the brain cells responsible for song generation die.” However, the neurons grow back over the winter months, and the birds learn their songs over again in the spring. Sugaya has also conducted neurological studies on songbirds. Sing Along In the Sesotho language, the verb for singing and dancing are the same ( ho bina), as it is assumed the two actions occur together. Yet our brains are remarkably adaptable to music. Hairy Cells The ear only has 3,500 inner hair cells, compared to the more than 100 million photoreceptors found in the eye. Oldest Instrument According to National Geographic, a 40,000-year-old vulture-bone flute is the world’s oldest musical instrument. “If you learn music as a child, your brain becomes designed for music,” Sugaya says. Typically by the age of 8, our brains do a major neuron dump, removing any neurons perceived as unnecessary, which is why it’s easier to teach language and music to younger children. Use it or lose it We are all born with more neurons than we actually need. “That means memories associated with music are emotional memories, which never fade out - even in Alzheimer’s patients.” Music Can… “If you play someone’s favorite music, different parts of the brain light up,” Sugaya explains. In recent studies, they’ve found that people with dementia respond better to the music they grew up listening to. Not necessarily true, say Sugaya and Yonetani. For a while, researchers believed that classical music increased brain activity and made its listeners smarter, a phenomenon called the Mozart effect. “It depends on your personal background,” Yonetani says. Turns out, whether it’s rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, hip-hop or classical, your gray matter prefers the same music you do. ![]() We sat down with the professors, who are also husband and wife, and asked them to explain which parts of the brain are activated by music. This can be seen on an MRI, where “lots of different parts of the brain light up,” he says. The effect lasts maybe 10 minutes or so even after you turn off the music.” “But once you put in the headphones that play music, their eyes light up. “Usually in the late stages, Alzheimer’s patients are unresponsive,” Sugaya says. Sugaya and Yonetani teach how people with neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s also respond positively to music. “Music and the Brain” explores how music impacts brain function and human behavior, including by reducing stress, pain and symptoms of depression as well as improving cognitive and motor skills, spatial-temporal learning and neurogenesis, which is the brain’s ability to produce neurons. ![]() Since 2006, two UCF professors - neuroscientist Kiminobu Sugaya and world-renowned violinist Ayako Yonetani - have been teaching one of the most popular courses in The Burnett Honors College. V for Venditti Robert Venditti ’01MA and the roundabout way he’s achieved success as a writer. What Is Creativity? UCF faculty explore the idea. UCF Breaks Ground on Downtown Campus UCF and Valencia College broke ground on a new partnership campus. More Than Meets the Eye Each piece of public art at UCF tells the story of the people who make these works available to the public. Your Brain on Music A popular class breaks down how our brains respond to music. Pegasus Takes Flight Pegasus, the UCF symbol, soars among the stars in a new mural by local artist Boy Kong. Creating a Scene Central Florida is becoming a hotbed of artistic activity and UCF grads are at the center of the creative boom. The Start of Something Big How a moment of creative inspiration has fueled President John C. Phillips Center UCF Celebrates the Arts takes creative work from the classroom to center stage. Third Annual UCF Celebrates the Arts at Dr. Good Vibrations Sam Borkson ’01 creates art to inspire friendship with the world. Why I Reign Performance artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz discusses her Reinas series and why she channels queens. Turning Points Head coach Johnny Dawkins recalls five defining moments from the men’s basketball teams’ turnaround season. Ninth Annual UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival The UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival brings jazz legends to the Central Florida area. UCF Remembers Pulse One Year Later UCF unveiled a new mural dedicated to the two Knights who were killed at Pulse. On Beat On Campus – Summer 2017 From art classes to UCFastival and Holi, the UCF campus during the Spring 2017 semester was a vibrant, inspiring place to be. Drawing Middle-earth Graham Judd ’09 brings the plants of Tolkein’s Middle-earth to life in a new book.
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A rather sanitized account of the right wing efforts of the 1970s, and cites Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, who miss precisely what most matters, which is corporate politics and money (the real guru, who has been on this beat since at least the mid 1990, is Tom Ferguson). The Broken Contract: Inequality and American Decline George Packer, Foreign Affairs (hat tip reader Crocodile Chuck registration required). Read up on the pay expectations, in case you managed to forget them. Wall Street Sees ‘No Exit’ From Woes Bloomberg (hat tip reader Typing Monkey). WSJ’s Francesco Guerrera says ‘banking chiefs must come clean about risk’ Trust Your Instincts Curious that the FT is taking note only now. Unions add their voice to Wall Street protests Financial Times. 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Such a source could then be used to calibrate instruments designed to measure luminous intensity with reference to a specified luminosity function. The definition describes how to produce a light source that (by definition) emits one candela, but does not specify the luminosity function for weighting radiation at other frequencies. The candela is the luminous intensity, in a given direction, of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of frequency 540 ×10 12 hertz and that has a radiant intensity in that direction of 1 / 683 watt per steradian. In 1979, because of the difficulties in realizing a Planck radiator at high temperatures and the new possibilities offered by radiometry, the 16th CGPM adopted a new definition of the candela: The candela is the luminous intensity, in the perpendicular direction, of a surface of 1 / 600 000 square metre of a black body at the temperature of freezing platinum under a pressure of 101 325 newtons per square metre. In 1967 the 13th CGPM removed the term "new candle" and gave an amended version of the candela definition, specifying the atmospheric pressure applied to the freezing platinum: It was then ratified in 1948 by the 9th CGPM which adopted a new name for this unit, the candela. The value of the new candle is such that the brightness of the full radiator at the temperature of solidification of platinum is 60 new candles per square centimetre. The decision was promulgated by the CIPM in 1946: However, the value of the new unit was chosen to make it similar to the earlier unit candlepower by dividing the Violle by 60. The Commission Internationale de l'Éclairage (International Commission on Illumination) and the CIPM proposed a "new candle" based on this basic concept. This made it easy for anyone to measure the standard, as high-purity platinum was widely available and easily prepared. The light intensity was due to the Planck radiator (a black body) effect, and was thus independent of the construction of the device. Jules Violle had proposed a standard based on the light emitted by 1 cm 2 of platinum at its melting point (or freezing point), calling this the Violle. It became clear that a better-defined unit was needed. Germany, Austria and Scandinavia used the Hefnerkerze, a unit based on the output of a Hefner lamp. One candlepower was the light produced by a pure spermaceti candle weighing one sixth of a pound and burning at a rate of 120 grains per hour. One of the best-known of these was the English standard of candlepower. ![]() These were typically based on the brightness of the flame from a "standard candle" of defined composition, or the brightness of an incandescent filament of specific design. Prior to 1948, various standards for luminous intensity were in use in a number of countries. Focused into a 20° beam (0.095 steradians), the same light bulb would have an intensity of around 18,000 cd within the beam.The luminous intensity for light of a particular wavelength λ is given by At other frequencies, more radiant intensity is required to achieve the same luminous intensity, according to the frequency response of the human eye. Under these conditions, photopic vision dominates the visual perception of our eyes over the scotopic vision. The human eye, when adapted for bright conditions, is most sensitive near this frequency. The frequency chosen is in the visible spectrum near green, corresponding to a wavelength of about 555 nanometres. The old name "candle" is still sometimes used, as in foot-candle and the modern definition of candlepower. If emission in some directions is blocked by an opaque barrier, the emission would still be approximately one candela in the directions that are not obscured. A common wax candle emits light with a luminous intensity of roughly one candela. Luminous intensity is analogous to radiant intensity, but instead of simply adding up the contributions of every wavelength of light in the source's spectrum, the contribution of each wavelength is weighted by the standard luminosity function (a model of the sensitivity of the human eye to different wavelengths). It measures luminous power per unit solid angle emitted by a light source in a particular direction. The candela ( / k æ n ˈ d ɛ l ə/ or / k æ n ˈ d iː l ə/ symbol: cd) is the unit of luminous intensity in the International System of Units (SI). The photopic includes the CIE 1931 standard (solid), the Judd–Vos 1978 modified data (dashed), and the Sharpe, Stockman, Jagla & Jägle 2005 data (dotted). ![]() Photopic (black) and scotopic (green) luminosity functions. There are three forces to be found on the invigorated earth. 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