This is Your Brain on Culture

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Norman Holland specializes in the psychology of the arts. His latest book is Literature and the Brain, available at literatureandthebrain.com See full bio

Your brain on movies

What's going on in our brains at the movies?

Hasson has gone on to other, more complex experiments dealing with the role of editing, for example. I want to blog about those, but at a week or two from now. I've gone on long enough in this posting. And we've got more opera this coming Saturday.

Psychological items I've referred to:

Hasson, Uri, et al. "Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision." Science 303.5664 (12 Mar 2004): 1634-40.

Hasson, Uri, et al. "Neurocinematics: The Neuroscience of Film." Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind 2.1 (Summer 2008): 1-23.



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