A Great Mathematician as a School Boy

David Eugene Smith; Vera Sanford

doi:10.5951/mt.14.7.0362

A Great Mathematician as a School Boy

Mathematics Teacher ◽

10.5951/mt.14.7.0362 ◽

1921 ◽

Vol 14 (7) ◽

pp. 362-366

Author(s):

David Eugene Smith ◽

Vera Sanford

Keyword(s):

Human Mind ◽

Great Mathematician ◽

Hero Worship

There is always and everywhere present in the human mind the tendency to hero worship. Iconoclastic as we may conceive ourselves to be, theoretically regicidal as we may proclaim our intentions, radical as may the group of which we are members boast itself, we all admire real ability and we tend to bow down before it. This is the reason why we exalt, even unduly, those whose genius we admire, placing them upon pedestals and considering that human frailties are alien to their nature. To us they are heroes ever,— born great and never descending to the average human level.

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An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the Principles of Common Sense

10.1017/cbo9781139136600 ◽

2009 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Thomas Reid

Keyword(s):

Common Sense ◽

Human Mind

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A Quick Visual Mind Can be a Slow Auditory Mind

Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie) ◽

10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.33 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 56 (1) ◽

pp. 33-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Sander Martens ◽

Addie Johnson ◽

Martje Bolle ◽

Jelmer Borst

Keyword(s):

Attentional Blink ◽

Task Difficulty ◽

Human Mind ◽

Visual Modality ◽

Present Evidence ◽

Conscious Level ◽

Visual Targets ◽

Concurrent Information

The human mind is severely limited in processing concurrent information at a conscious level of awareness. These temporal restrictions are clearly reflected in the attentional blink (AB), a deficit in reporting the second of two targets when it occurs 200–500 ms after the first. However, we recently reported that some individuals do not show a visual AB, and presented psychophysiological evidence that target processing differs between “blinkers” and “nonblinkers”. Here, we present evidence that visual nonblinkers do show an auditory AB, which suggests that a major source of attentional restriction as reflected in the AB is likely to be modality-specific. In Experiment 3, we show that when the difficulty in identifying visual targets is increased, nonblinkers continue to show little or no visual AB, suggesting that the presence of an AB in the auditory but not in the visual modality is not due to a difference in task difficulty.

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