Biological and behavioral description and analysis of human senses in ecologically relevant circumstances
Drawing upon neuroscience research on multisensory processing, I suggested that new digital combinations of evidence should be required to be introduced within the evidentiary portion of trials. Here I further consider trial procedure and the actual operation of courts. Under the proposed rule for digital presentation technologies, counsel would be allowed to present evidence in … Continue reading digital presentation technologies at trial
Digital multimedia presentations can powerfully affect legal trials. Consider the Skakel trial: During the Connecticut District Attorney’s closing argument in the trial of Michael Skakel for the murder, twenty-seven years before, of fifteen-year-old Martha Moxley, jurors heard and read Skakel’s own words [which appeared] on the screen before them. And in the instant that Skakel … Continue reading Skakel trial: making multisensory evidence
Multisensory processing in primates, like information processing on the Internet, is extensively decentralized. A recent neuroscience review article declared: The pervasiveness of multisensory influences on all levels of cortical processing compels us to reconsider thinking about neural processing in unisensory terms. Indeed, the multisensory nature of most, possibly all, of the neocortex forces us to … Continue reading multisensory processing
Persons’ spatial representations of an action described verbally are biased in the spatial orientation of the action. Recent research indicates that a left-to-right bias develops from experience of a culture’s left-to-right writing system, and a right-to-left bias likewise from a right-to-left writing system. The Morgan Bible of Louis IX and the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp, … Continue reading writing direction influences spatial representation
Video circulation from Massachusetts public libraries doubled from 1998 to 2006. Over the same period, print item circulation fell slightly. Audio and video items together now account for 32% of total item circulation from Massachusetts public libraries.[1] Audiovisual circulation in libraries in other states might account for somewhat less, perhaps a quarter of total circulation. … Continue reading print down slightly, video up sharply