{"id":3780,"date":"2014-01-13T15:08:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T19:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=3780"},"modified":"2022-03-24T11:21:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T15:21:41","slug":"of-bears-and-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/of-bears-and-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Bears and Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Psychology <strong>Siu-Lan Tan<\/strong> writes a blog for the magazine <em>Psychology Today<\/em> under the topic heading &#8220;What Shapes Film? Elements of the Cinematic Experience.&#8221; That assignment keeps her eye on YouTube videos that go viral. For example, recently, some 4 million viewers have had the &#8220;cinematic experience&#8221; of watching a three-month old polar bear take his first wobbly steps at the Toronto Zoo. Where most of us may see a bear only, Tan sees human beings as well. Her recent blog post notes that both share a phenomenon of physical development known as the cephalocaudal principle, which means that bear and baby\u2019s first movements tend to be in reverse. The blog is a fun, informative read with some pretty cute video illustrations. Part of the fun derives from the fact that both species are subject to a lot of individual variation when it comes to learning self-locomotion. Crawlers, rollers, and scooters, oh my!<\/p>\n<p>Tan is a popular blogger on other academic topics.\u00a0 One of her posts on singing and emotional contagion was named #4 of Oxford University Press Blog\u2019s Top 10 Posts of the Year 2013.\u00a0 That post was also selected as #22 of Psychology Today\u2019s Top 25 Posts of the Year 2013, out of a total of about 14,000 annual posts.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Tan\u2019s article titled &#8220;Visual Representations of Music in Three Cultures: UK, Japan, and Papua New Guinea&#8221; was published in December in the <em>Empirical Musicology Review<\/em>. Her blog is also posted at Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor of Psychology Siu-Lan Tan writes a blog for the magazine Psychology Today under the topic heading &#8220;What Shapes Film? Elements of the Cinematic Experience.&#8221; That assignment keeps her eye on YouTube videos that go viral. 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Crawlers, rollers, and scooters, oh my!<\/p>\n<p>Tan is a popular blogger on other academic topics.\u00a0 One of her posts on singing and emotional contagion was named #4 of Oxford University Press Blog\u2019s Top 10 Posts of the Year 2013.\u00a0 That post was also selected as #22 of Psychology Today\u2019s Top 25 Posts of the Year 2013, out of a total of about 14,000 annual posts.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Tan\u2019s article titled &#8220;Visual Representations of Music in Three Cultures: UK, Japan, and Papua New Guinea&#8221; was published in December in the <em>Empirical Musicology Review<\/em>. 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