Word: brained
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...program in Trento, Italy was organized by Alfonso Caramazza, a professor of psychology and co-director of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Interfaculty Initiative. “The idea was to create a program that would be interesting for students who are excited about biology and the brain but also about the mind,” says Caramazza...
Conway and Livingstone’s class, “What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain,” will introduce students to the fundamentals of visual neuroscience and then become more hands-on, with trips to local studios and museums so students can more intimately experience the connection between art and science...
...course emphasizes studying art in order to understand how the human mind construes it and what assumptions must be made about the visual system to allow the brain to create such art, according to Caramazza...
Artists often use the computations and algorithms performed by the firing of neurons in the brain to produce certain effects in paintings...
...shimmering in paintings is caused by this very discrepancy between the color-sensitive and color-insensitive parts of the brain. The effect seems magical to the viewer but is based on simple neuroscientific principles...