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My connectome, myself
The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each of which is connected to many others. Neuroscientists believe these connections hold the key to our memories, personality and even mental disorders such...
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Art in Our Lives: Native Women Artists in Dialogue
In 2007 the School for Advanced Research (SAR) received funding from the Anne Ray Charitable Trust Foundation in order to bring together a group of Native women artists from all walks of life to...
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#UNRAVEL
#UNRAVEL is a new collaboration by FOUND + Aidan Moffat on the reliability of memory. This is a 3 minute documentary featuring the artists explaining the project. #UNRAVEL is a collection of devices...
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Scientists use light to control brain with flick of a switch
It is an area of science that has the power to control the human mind with the flick of a light switch. Scientists have developed a way of using pulses of light to turn the brain cells that control...
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Why I Hate Dreams
“I hate dreams. Dreams are the Sea Monkeys of consciousness: in the back pages of sleep they promise us teeming submarine palaces but leave us, on waking, with a hermetic residue of freeze-dried dust....
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Mind bending: Why our memories are not always our own
Without memories, we would be lost. Yet, in an extract from his new book,the psychologist Charles Fernyhough reveals that some of our most precious recollections are perhaps not ours at all. Adult...
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Saltworks by Motoi Yamamoto
Motoi Yamamoto: Salt seems to possess a close relation with human life beyond time and space. Moreover, especially in Japan, it is indispensable in the death culture. After my sister’s death, what I...
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Drawing city skylines from memory
Director/DP Noah David Smith recently teamed up with humble and Publicis to shoot a touching film for UBS featuring artist, Stephen Wiltshire. After spending the early years of his life as a mute...
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MIRAGE: Performance Art with Substitutional Reality system
Substitutional Reality system could be used to study cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric patients. Christopher Nolan’s 2010 blockbuster Inception is set in a distant future where military technology...
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“The uncanny, phenomenology’s bad trip”
N 1919, SIGMUND FREUD devoted a brief essay to “The Uncanny” (das Unheimliche). Pages of dictionary definitions were followed by a long literary analysis of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fantastic 1816 story “The...
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Amnesia and the Self That Remains When Memory Is Lost
Daniel Levitin: Tom was one of those people we all have in our lives — someone to go out to lunch with in a large group, but not someone I ever spent time with one-on-one. We had some classes together...
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Einstein’s Brain (…and the neuroscientist who studied it)
Marian Diamond began her graduate work in 1948 and was the first female student in the department of anatomy at UC Berkeley. The first thing she was asked to do when she got there was sew a cover for...
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