Part 11 (1/2)

on lettering: paulshawletterdesign.com.

New York City's architectural style: N. White, E. Willensky, and F. Leadon, AIA Guide to New York City (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

hunger to pursue visual stimuli that give us pleasure: I. Biederman and E. A. Vessel, ”Perceptual Pleasure and the Brain,” American Scientist 94 (2006): 249255.

pregnant ampersand: /lettering-grows-in-brooklyn.

6-8 Delancey Street: J. Mendelsohn, The Lower East Side Remembered and Revisited: A History and Guide to a Legendary New York Neighborhood (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009).

”shoes for abnormal feet”: Advertis.e.m.e.nt, Jewish Frontier, vol. 18, 1951, p. 43.

locally famous robbery: H. P. Jeffers, Commissioner Roosevelt: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt and the New York City Police, 18951897 (New York: Wiley, 1996).

”disorderly house”: Report of the Special Committee of the a.s.sembly Appointed to Investigate the Public Offices and Departments of the City of New York and of the Counties Therein Included, vol. 2 (Albany, NY: James B. Lyon, 1900), p. 2002; and R. Zacks, Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York (New York: Doubleday, 2012).

Tetris study: R. Stickgold, A. Malia, D. Maguire, et al., ”Replaying the Game: Hypnagogic Images in Normals and Amnesics,” Science 290 (2000): 350353.

INTO THE FOURTH DIMENSION.

”if you're ever bored or blue”: M. Kalman, The Principles of Uncertainty (New York: Penguin, 2007).

”no two human Umwelten are the same”: J. von Uexkll, ”A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men,” in C. H. Schiller, ed., Instinctive Behavior: The Development of a Modern Concept (New York: International Universities Press, 1934/1957), pp. 580.

”nude, shamed look”: A. Kazin, A Walker in the City (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1951), p. 78.

personal s.p.a.ce: H. Hediger, Wild Animals in Captivity (London: b.u.t.terworth, 1950).

judgments about people: M. Bar, M. Neta, and H. Linz, ”Very First Impressions,” Emotion 6 (2006): 269278.

sclera and width-height ratio of eye: H. Kobayas.h.i.+ and S. Kohs.h.i.+ma, ”Unique Morphology of the Human Eye,” Nature 387 (1997): 767768.

neurobiology of vision: N. J. Emery, ”The Eyes Have It: The Neuroethology, Function and Evolution of Social Gaze,” Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 24 (2000): 581604.

neuropsychology of attention: R. Datta and E. A. DeYoe, ”I Know Where You Are Secretly Attending! The Topography of Human Visual Attention Revealed with fMRI,” Vision Research 49 (2009): 10371044.

newborns babies' interest in gaze: T. Farroni, G. Csibra, F. Simion, and M. Johnson, ”Eye Contact Detection in Humans from Birth,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (2002): 96029605.

eye contact and attachment: K. S. Robson, The Role of Eye-to-Eye Contact in Maternal-Infant Attachment,” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 8 (1967): 1325; and A. J. Guastella, P. B. Mitch.e.l.l, and M. R. Dadds, ”Oxytocin Increases Gaze to the Eye Region of Human Faces,” Biological Psychiatry 63 (2008): 35.

eye contact generally: A. Senjua and M. H. Johnson, ”The Eye Contact Effect: Mechanisms and Development,” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 13 (2009): 127134.

eyes and art: M. F. Marmor and J. G. Ravin, The Artist's Eyes: Vision and the History of Art (New York: Abrams, 2009), pp. 125127.

never complains about waiting for the subway: G. K. Chesterton wrote something similar about boys in railroad stations in On Running After One's Hat.

canonical ”creative brain”: o. de Manzano, S. Cervenka, A. Karabanov, et al., ”Thinking Outside a Less Intact Box: Thalamic Dopamine D2 Receptor Densities Are Negatively Related to Psychometric Creativity in Healthy Individuals,” PLoS One 55 (2010): e10670.

streetlights: ”Lighting,” NYC Department of Transportation Street Design Manual, 2010. /11068-ant-oases-nyc-street-medians.html.

search images: S. J. Shettleworth, Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998).

blue jays trained to look for camouflaged moths: J. Alc.o.c.k, Animal Behavior, 9th ed. (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer, 2011).

olfactory search images: V. O. Nams, ”Olfactory Search Images in Striped Skunks,” Behaviour 119 (1991): 267284; F. R. Cross and R. R. Jackson, ”Olfactory Search-Image Use by a Mosquito-Eating Predator,” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 22 (2010): 31733178; and I. Gazit, A. Goldblatt, and J. Terkel, ”Formation of an Olfactory Search Image for Explosives Odours in Sniffer Dogs,” Ethology 111 (2005): 669680.

Sacks' first Tourette's patient: blog.ted.com/2009/09/qa_with_oliver.php.

the ”clay pitcher search image”: J. von Uexkll, ”A Stroll Through the Worlds of Animals and Men,” in C. H. Schiller, ed., Instinctive Behavior: The Development of a Modern Concept (New York: International Universities Press, 1934/1957).

visual search in the brain: M. P. Eckstein, ”Visual Search: A Retrospective,” Journal of Vision 11 (2011): 136.