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Archive of posts tagged cognitive science
Article: Sound, the Way the Brain Prefers to Hear It
Sound, the Way the Brain Prefers to Hear It By GUY GUGLIOTTA Published: September 5, 2011 In designing the next great audio system, researchers are invoking the science of psychoacoustics.
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 [...]
Leonardo Review: September Reviews Posted
Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians, Brandon Ballengée Nicola Triscott and Miranda Pope, Editors Reviewed by Mike Leggett The Milemete Treatise and Companion Secretum Secretorum: Iconography, Audience, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century England by Libby Karlinger Escobedo Reviewed by Rob Harle The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age by David M. [...]
Article: Call It a Reversible Coma, Not Sleep
Interesting interview here on anesthesia with Dr. Emery Neal Brown, a professor of computational neuroscience at M.I.T. and a practicing physician. He heads a laboratory seeking to unravel one of medicine’s big questions: how anesthesia works.
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 [...]
