なってないのに絶対いま携帯のバイブなっただろって思うときあるよね。
ってツイートしたら、あるあるって反応してくれた人が結構いました。
これは"Phantom Vibration Syndrome"(幻想振動症候群)っていうそうです。
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2007-06-12-cellphones_N.htm?csp=34
(Good vibrations? Bad? None at all? USA TODAY, 2007/12/6)
記事を要約すると、
携帯の着信音やバイブレーションを感知するようになるのは認知的な学習プロセスの一つ
・着信音やバイブに反応することを学習すると、たとえうるさい環境でもそれを拾えるように認知的なフィルターがかかる
・ただそのフィルターは不完全だからときどき誤作動が起こる(false alarms)
・その辺の雑音が着信音やバイブだと誤って認識されてしまう
この現象は神経の適応性からも説明がつく
・神経の適応性(Neuroplasticity)＝環境変化に応じて新しいコネクションをつくる脳のはたらき
・携帯ユーザーが定期的に着信音やバイブを感じるようになると、脳に新たなコネクションができる
・しかしそのコネクションは簡単に活性化されてしまう
・バイブに対する感覚が敏感になりすぎて、似たような感覚もテンプレートに組み込まれてしまう
ということでした。
べつに携帯依存症がどうとかは書いてませんでした。
でも俺の場合は誰かからの返信を待ってる時によく起こる気がします。
いずれにしても脳が勘違いするほど携帯に敏感になってるってのはなんかいやですよね。
携帯なしでは人付き合いを保つのも難しい今日この頃ですが、そんなものに頼らなくてもいいような人間関係をつくっていきたいものです。
One word I've found on my friend's FB comment has left strange resonance on me - "tranquilizer."
Can I be a tranquilizer for anyone?
We human kind have "mirror neurons" and it enables us to empathy the other people.
Empathy is probably one of the greatest abilities of our brain.
Some people can think the other's problems as if they were the problem of themselves.
They worry their friends and try to save them.
How about myself?
Have I been a tranquilizer for anyone?
Haven't I overlooked anyone's troubles?
Be honest.
Praise when they success and persuade when they make a mistake.
It's too late to regret after I lose it.
iPhoneからの投稿
Can I be a tranquilizer for anyone?
We human kind have "mirror neurons" and it enables us to empathy the other people.
Empathy is probably one of the greatest abilities of our brain.
Some people can think the other's problems as if they were the problem of themselves.
They worry their friends and try to save them.
How about myself?
Have I been a tranquilizer for anyone?
Haven't I overlooked anyone's troubles?
Be honest.
Praise when they success and persuade when they make a mistake.
It's too late to regret after I lose it.
iPhoneからの投稿
People who have "Synesthesia" experience the blending of two or more senses.
e.g.)
touch x taste = one of synesthetes feels a vivid bitter taste in his mouth when he shapes hamburger patties with his hand
hearing x color = sees blue when he/she listens to the note C# played on the piano (other notes evoke different hues.)
vision x color = looks at printed black numbers, he/she sees them as 1 3 5 6 9→1 3 5 6 9
It is said that he phenomenon of sense-blending is caused by "cross wiring."
e.g.)
number x color = number-appearance area x V4(both in the fusiform gyrus)
または = the higher color area x the number-concept area(both in TPO)
sound x color = the hearing center(temporal lobes) x the higher color area that receives color signal from V4
Perhaps a mutation causes connections to emerge between brain areas that are usually segregated.
The another possible cause is "Cross activation," that is two separate areas of the brain elicit activity in each other.
The synesthesia condition 7 times as common in creative people as in the general poplulation.
Reference: Hearing colors, tasting shapes, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard, Scientific American, May 2003
e.g.)
touch x taste = one of synesthetes feels a vivid bitter taste in his mouth when he shapes hamburger patties with his hand
hearing x color = sees blue when he/she listens to the note C# played on the piano (other notes evoke different hues.)
vision x color = looks at printed black numbers, he/she sees them as 1 3 5 6 9→1 3 5 6 9
It is said that he phenomenon of sense-blending is caused by "cross wiring."
e.g.)
number x color = number-appearance area x V4(both in the fusiform gyrus)
または = the higher color area x the number-concept area(both in TPO)
sound x color = the hearing center(temporal lobes) x the higher color area that receives color signal from V4
Perhaps a mutation causes connections to emerge between brain areas that are usually segregated.
The another possible cause is "Cross activation," that is two separate areas of the brain elicit activity in each other.
The synesthesia condition 7 times as common in creative people as in the general poplulation.
Reference: Hearing colors, tasting shapes, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard, Scientific American, May 2003