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Archive of posts tagged brain
How Exercise Could Lead to a Better Brain
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
