Emotive.

More testing at work today. As part of the scanner thing I had to be assessed on a variety of neuro-psychological tests. Some involved looking at pictures or listening to someone reciting a series of numbers in order to identify the emotions conveyed by faces, actions or gestures. Others involved memory and planning skills. All in it must have taken the best part of two hours. Whacked afterwards.

Still, back home and a few minutes to play with the new toy. Am determined I have to find a way to do it some justice. Am not sure what that'll be right now, but will start with a book off of the shelf. It was something that I used for uni work a few years back. Entitled "Dangerous Doctors", it's one man's take on some of the problems that beset the medical profession in the years around the mid twentieth century. In it he maintained that medicine was besmirched by doctors who he believed could be described as deplorable. He estimated that 1 in 20 could be described thus.

In an earlier publication (1938) his ideas were decried as "propaganda" and "scurrilous" by some others in the profession.

Anyway, a quick way of generating context for an emotion. Shock? Horror? Disgust? Or just an auld wifie trying to get a blip out of the way so she can sit down and watch the telly?