A New York Times article on the work of a team of researchers led by Justin S. Rhodes, a psychology professor at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois talks about how exercise could lead to a better brain.
Archive of posts filed under the Articles category.
Filmmaker Wins Case Against I.R.S.
Good news for artists! The producer and director Lee Storey won her case last week against the commissioner of Internal Revenue in United States Tax Court. The I.R.S. tried to disallow Ms. Storey’s deduction of expenses incurred while making and marketing a film.
Book Review: Imagery in the 21st Century
Amy Ione Reviews Imagery in the 21st Century by Oliver Grau, with Thomas Veigl.
Art and the Brain: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?
Editorial by Amy Ione In press: Scheduled publication: Leonardo October 2012, Vol. 45, No. 3. [Now available online at Leonardo Thinks, here.] In the last few years, the term neuroaesthetics has come to denote research that looks at the relationship between art and the brain. The premise within the field is that we can understand [...]
Automatons: Watching the historical human imagination mechanically mirror human functions
After seeing a wonderful automaton exhibition at the San Francisco Airport a few weeks ago, I was delighted to see an article on the Maillardet automaton at the Franklin Institute in today’s New York Times. The Maillardet automaton’s motions are controlled by dozens of slowly rotating brass disks. These disks contain all the data necessary [...]
Article: Art and the Limits of Neuroscience
Art and the Limits of Neuroscience By ALVA NOë Why does art move us? Why does it matter? The answers are not likely to be found by studying the brain.
