Pattern recognition receptor Puns

The role of pattern recognition receptors in intestinal inflammation

http://www.nature.com/mi/journal/v6/n3/full/mi201313a.html

Thanks in advance!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19400727 would be very useful for my dissertation if anyone has it.

It's incredibly ironic. As much as I struggle with mind blindness, I can interact with people and just know things about them. For example, I'm particularly good at guessing financial status, if the person is from a city or rural area, if they are the oldest/youngest child, etc all within the first minute of talking to them.

There's also the classic "picking up on bad vibes". In high school, I would pick up on it with certain people that everyone likes and others would think I was being paranoid. Sure enough, stuff would come out about them later on that quickly changed the perception of them. Now when I feel bad vibes I can just run the other way...thank God high school ended.

Maybe it's bc I've subconsciously picked up on patterns/common characteristics between people.

Can anyone relate? Do you agree? Or maybe you have an alternate theory?

Edit: Upon further reflection, I connected some dots. I've had a special interest in communication (specifically body language and tone of voice) for 8 years, so that explains a lot. I also grew up in an area with a high violent crime rate so reading people was a matter of not getting my ass kicked. It's also middle and lower class, which explains why people from money stick out to me. So the mystery is solved. I still want to hear from other people though!

I always thought I don’t have any special pattern recognition abilities because I didn’t relate to any of the ones that I had read about. But I just realized now, I have been an expert musical harmonizer since I was a little kid. I can make a hundred harmonies instantly with music I have never heard before. Harmonies are really just predictable patterns of music. I remember my friends in middle school being shocked by this and telling their parents about my “special ability”. It’s weird how obvious these things are and yet you don’t notice them because it’s just how you are.

Hi guys, I'm a neuroscientists trying to study how the brain recognizes patterns. Hopefully I'm about to do an experiment and use the song electric counterpoint III (fast) by Steve Reich as a control to see how the brain recognizes patterns.

I'm certainly not a musician however I plan on talking about music theory in depth, firstly what are the key patterns that the brain is going to pick up on? hopefully I can measure activity in the brain and plausibly see the music theory in that neurological activity (Leave that part to me).

In general I was just asking for predictions regarding what the brain will pick up on. In essence, what are the patterns in the music that you predict most brains would pick up on?

Here is the song

https://youtu.be/qLMNN4hDO-Q

give it a listen and tell me what you think.

Thanks,

Neuroscientist

Told I should post about my MIL here; she has been awful and petty ever since I failed to live up to her mysterious, changing, never-voiced-nor-clarified ideals (so, since our second or third meeting?). Hubby knows that she's difficult, but has always wanted me to just try harder to make [unknowable] amends (or so it seems - if he's ever asked his mom to compromise it's not been within my earshot or shared with me). After too many years of failing to repair or maintain things with her that I didn't know or understand were broken I gave up on trying. I will always be damned, no matter what I do _or don't_ say or do. It took me far too long to realize that this is not (and has not been) my problem; it's hers. So I remain polite, but I no longer give her craziness any power over me (which has immensely improved my wellbeing).

Past example: I set the dinner table and give her a teaspoon and she quips 'oh, so you think I'm a baby, giving me the baby spoon' because it has a shorter handle (which, a. WTF?!; b. our next size up spoon is a cartoonishly large soup spoon. Like the serving-spoons are barely bigger; and c. this explains so much about her behavior towards me over the years). Hubby uses the big spoons because his mouth is huge. I don't like to gape or slurp so prefer to use our teaspoons; I didn't think twice about giving her the same utensils that I use and set for myself. So, I get her an enormous soup spoon instead which is far too large, so she rifles through our cutlery drawer to triumphantly retrieve a jam spoon (it has a loooong handle, but literally a teeny-tiny baby-spoon-sized head). These are what she uses every time she visits. She does not see the irony.

Anyways, there are so, so, so many other examples I could include here, but what I came here to write about is her latest gift: an electric tea kettle. NBD, right?

Well, earlier this spring she's visiting and comments on our 'new' stovetop kettle, which is actually our old one. Years prior, our kettle proved inferior for boiling water somehow so she gifted us with a replacement stovetop kettle that we didn't need nor ask for but whatever; we put away the old one and used the gifted kettle until it finally got so dingy it was just too gross to have out (it had some silicone-like coating on the exterior that would scorch and stain and was just impossible to get clean). So we pulled out the old [cleanable] kettle again and she took keen note.

She brought up how she uses an ele