#The Letterbox

[buradeeznuts]

Currently the 2 devs left on TF2 are having a war in the office as they keep banning and unbanning the same cosmetic from the workshop over and over again, it's happened seven times.

What is the cosmetic you ask? Big Slappy.

What is Big Slappy you ask?

I bet you wish you didn't ask.

As of now, it is banned, that will likely change soon.

LITERALLY 1984

[helperderato]

The letterbox

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#The letterbox free#

How can this view explain why all readers possess a specialized and reproducibly located area for a recent cultural invention? The idea is that the act of reading is tightly constrained by the preexisting brain architectures for language and vision. Each cultural object must find its neuronal niche-a set of circuits that are sufficiently close to the required function and sufficiently plastic to be partially “recycled.” The theory stipulates that cultural inventions always involve the recycling of older cerebral structures that originally were selected by evolution to address very different problems but manage, more or less successfully, to shift toward a novel cultural use. On the contrary, new cultural inventions such as writing are only possible inasmuch as they fit within our preexisting brain architecture.

#The letterbox free#

5 We should stop thinking of human culture as a distinctly social layer, free to vary without bounds, independent of our biological endowment. According to a theoretical proposal called the neuronal recycling hypothesis, which I introduced with colleague Laurent Cohen a few years ago, the human brain contains highly organized cortical maps that constrain subsequent learning. Resolving this paradox requires thinking about the state of the brain prior to literacy. How is it, then, that we all possess a specialized letterbox area? Reading as Neuronal Recycling Thus, there was no time for Darwinian evolution to shape our genome and adapt our brain networks to the particularities of reading. But how is this possible, given that reading is an extremely recent and highly variable cultural activity? The alphabet is only about 4,000 years old, and until recently, only a very small fraction of humanity could read. The brain of any educated adult contains a circuit specialized for reading. Yet many of these patients can still speak and understand spoken language fluently, and they may even still write only their visual capacity to process letter strings seems dramatically affected. He or she will be unable to recognize even a single word, as well as faces, objects, digits, and Arabic numerals. Furthermore, if it is impaired or disconnected via brain surgery or a cerebral infarct (type of stroke), the patient may develop a syndrome called pure alexia. For instance, the letterbox is the first visual area that recognizes that “READ” and “read” depict the same word by representing strings of letters invariantly for changes in case, which is no small feat if you consider that uppercase and lowercase letters such as “A” and “a” bear very little similarity. Yet it performs highly sophisticated operations that are indispensable to fluent reading. 4 Its efficiency is so great that it even responds to words that we fail to recognize consciously-words made subliminal by flashing them for a fraction of a second. The letterbox responds to written words more than it does to most other categories of visual stimuli, including pictures of faces, objects, houses, and even Arabic numerals. Indeed, this site is amazingly specialized. And, if it is destroyed or disconnected, as in the patient whose brain scan is shown at right, we may selectively lose the capacity to read.Įxperts call this region the visual word form area, but in a recent book for the general public, 3 I dubbed it the “brain’s letterbox,” because it concentrates much of our visual knowledge of letters and their configurations. In all of us, it is systematically located at the same place within a “mosaic” of ventral preferences for various categories of objects. It shows a stronger activation to words than to many other categories of visual stimuli, such as pictures of objects, faces, or places. 2 Figure 1. The visual word form area-the brain’s letterbox-is a small region of the human visual system that systematically activates whenever we read. Written words never fail to activate a small region at the base of the left hemisphere, always at the same place, give or take a few millimeters. A brief localizer scan, during which images of brain activity are collected as a person responds to written words, faces, objects, and other visual stimuli, serves to identify this region. 1 In particular, a small region of the visual cortex becomes active with remarkable reproducibility in the brains of all readers (see figure 1). Whenever we read-whether our language is Japanese, Hebrew, English, or Italian-each of us relies on very similar brain networks. Although I find the diversity of the world’s writing systems bewildering, there is a striking regularity that remains hidden.

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[vvenuspng]

just wanna say thanks for making so much Stolas with him serving Cloaca SEVERELY

need this ask plastered all over my damn walls.. this ask has become my new daily affirmation im not even kidding.. i fuck up on something & i tell myself. at least someone out there thinks i can draw stolas serving cloaca severely…. need this ask tattooed on me tbh thank u

anyways. a stolas for u <3 thank u

[talesfromthecrypts]

Panna a netvor [Beauty and the Beast] (1978) dir. Juraj Herz

[gay-cripply-scientist]

The bestie is getting tired of me trying to shove myself in their letterbox

[murderofsomeone]

THE CREAKING SKULL

AHHHHH FUCK MAN AHHHHH

[malice-kingdom]

I kept jokingly complain to my friend that I was seeing a lot of Saw content on my dash

Well jokes on me I’m into it now

[loktauri]

could u draw bdubs please? if you're familiar with it, season 5 bdubs in particular would be very cool :]

He's super duper normal and not at all slowly being assimilated into a floral hivemind, you should let him stay over for tea

[rozzywell]

My really cool new special image called "knuckles sends a fish to hell"

[softlymaximoff]

Hello hello, can I ask for back to school but we're matching with Wanda for a mood board please? Need motivation for college 😔 (Do I make sense ??)

Also can I be add on the tag list please?♡♡

College lessons are for stealing looks with each other and making your girlfriend giggle

Hi hi! I hope this is alright 😭 and off you can be on the tag list!!!

Tags: @gemxolio @aggieslittlebunny @wandasdove @wandamaximoffbae @huggingkoalas

[vvenuspng]

Could you draw Sallie May x Barbie Wire OR just say your thoughts on them? :3

They’ve been rotting my brain so badly 😞

AWW that sounds so cute. i’ve gotten REALLY attached to barbie wire/verosika, but i LOVE barbie so im down for any sapphic barbie ship <3

cutie patooties! i may be convinced..

[talesfromthecrypts]

If you're hungry, have a piece of your friend.

Doomsday (2008) dir. Neil Marshall

[bellemagedon]

my favorite letterboxd reviews ‼️ letterboxd is my form of twitter

[conservethis]

While vacationing in England last week, I went to Dartmoor National Park, where I saw some tors on the moor.

And because I like to peer under things and into crevices, I happened to find 2 separate letterboxes left there by some local children.

I hadn’t ever heard of letterboxing before then, either! It’s sort of like geocaching, but with more rubber stamps.

[murderofsomeone]

hatsune miku if she was in the ncu

noooo little vocaloid don't go into the lemon demon cave

[prunebir]

ok wallmark slugs what about spive slugs.....

ok so basically