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 [...]
Archive of posts tagged brain
Review: Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin by Riccardo Manzotti
Reviewed by Amy Ione for Leonardo Reviews Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin is the fruit of a workshop held in Milan in September 2009. The workshop brought together cognitive and neuroscientists, artists, philosophers, and others interested in expanding beyond the reductionistic, brain-focused approach that predominated in early art and the brain publications. Divided into three [...]
The Lying Brain: Lie Detection in Science and Science Fiction by Dr. Melissa M. Littlefield PhD
Real and imagined machines, including mental microscopes, thought translators, and polygraphs, have long promised to detect deception in human beings. Now, via fMRI and EEG, neuroscientists seem to have found what scientists, lawyers, and law enforcement officials have sought for over a century: foolproof lie detection. But are these new lie detection technologies any different [...]
Working Best at Coffee Shops?
Why are many telecommuters most efficient in noisy public places with lots of distractions? by Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic Read More 04/15/11
Exhibition: Brain: The Inside Story
November 20, 2010 – August 14, 2011 The human brain—the result of millions of years of evolutionary history—uses molecular, chemical, and electrical signals to interpret information, weigh decisions, and learn at every stage of life. Drawing on 21st-century research and technology, Brain: The Inside Story offers visitors a new perspective and keen insight into their [...]
Portraits of the Human Brain
Carl Schoonover’s article/Photos of the Human Brain on The Huffington Post reminded me of how much I am looking forward to reading his book Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century“Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century which looks at the fascinating history [...]
Leonardo Reviews – Reviews Posted, September 2010
Leonardo Reviews is pleased to announce the new postings at: http://leonardo.info/ldr.html (ISSN: 1559-0429)
Article: Does the Digital Classroom Enfeeble the Mind?
By JARON LANIER | New York Times If machines are to improve teaching, we must recognize their limits — and our own capacity for magic. Full article
Visual Illusion Sampling
Scientific American has a fun slide show and some related links here.
Symposium: Personhood in a Neurobiological Age
Brain, Self and Society | Final Symposium | 13 September 2010 | Venue: The Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building (NAB), LSE It seems that we have learned more about the brain in the last decade than over the previous millennia of human history. But to what extent are developments in the ‘new brain sciences’ [...]
