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
Archive of posts tagged cognitive science
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’ [...]
SYMPOSIUM: LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND
LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND SYMPOSIUM brings together artists and neuroscientists for an afternoon of talks and discussions about creativity, visualizing the brain, and finding connections where art and science meet.
Ann: Synesthersia & Creativity: “Music and the Brain Series”
Friday, October 30 | Richard E. Cytowic gives a pre-concert illustrated talk on how Synesthesia informs art and creativity, with a special focus on colored music and sound paintings from both listener and composer perspectives. The concert afterward is a performance of visual music, "One Minute More," 60 one-minute pieces composed to 60 one-minute videos.
CFP: ICCC-X : 1st International Conference on Computational Creativity
Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 | January 2010 http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/icccx DEADLINE: September 21, 2009
