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Images in Mind

Author : Deborah Tarn Steiner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121848X
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Images in Mind written by Deborah Tarn Steiner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In archaic and classical Greece, statues played a constant role in people's religious, political, economic, aesthetic, and mental lives. Evidence of many kinds demonstrates that ancient Greeks thought about--and interacted with--statues in ways very different from our own. This book recovers ancient thinking about statues by approaching them through contemporary literary sources. It not only shows that ancient viewers conceived of images as more operative than aesthetic, but additionally reveals how poets and philosophers found in sculpture a practice ''good to think with.'' Deborah Tarn Steiner considers how Greek authors used images to ponder the relation of a copy to an original and of external appearance to inner reality. For these writers, a sculpture could straddle life and death, encode desire, or occasion reflection on their own act of producing a text. Many of the same sources also reveal how thinking about statues was reflected in the objects' everyday treatment. Viewing representations of gods and heroes as vessels hosting a living force, worshippers ritually washed, clothed, and fed them in order to elicit the numinous presence within. By reading the plastic and verbal sources together, this book offers new insights into classical texts while illuminating the practices surrounding the design, manufacture, and deployment of ancient images. Its argument that images are properly objects of cultural and social--rather than purely aesthetic--study will attract art historians, cultural historians, and anthropologists, as well as classicists.

Images of Mind

Author : Michael I. Posner
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780716760191
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Images of Mind written by Michael I. Posner and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "...A clear and beautifully illustrated review of this enticing and exciting multidisciplinary enterprise ...This book is a celebration of the foundation of cognitive neuroscience, its premises, tools and promise ...it conveys the fascination and promise of an emerging field ...a valuable introduction to cognitive neuroscience for all biologists, neurologists, and psychiatrists, as well as undergraduates and anyone interested in knowing how it has become possible to approach the study of mind, not on a philosophical level, but as an experimental science." Nature.

The Black Image in the White Mind

Author : Robert M. Entman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226210766
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Black Image in the White Mind written by Robert M. Entman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans through the images the media show. This text offers a look at the racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of whites toward blacks.

Art in Mind

Author : Ernst van Alphen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226015297
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Art in Mind written by Ernst van Alphen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-03-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. Art can be considered as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intellect and intervene in our lives. Art is a historical agent, or a cultural creator, that propels thought and experience forward. The author demonstrates that art serves a socially constructive function by actually experimenting with the parameters of thought, employing work from artists as Picasso, Watteau, Bacon, Dumas and Matthew Barney. Art confronts viewers with the 'pain points' of cultural experience, and thereby transforms the ways in which human existence is concieved.

Remember the Future

Author : Raza Imam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (168 download)

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Download or read book Remember the Future written by Raza Imam and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could literally "remember the future" and make it come to life in the present? Professional athletes and Olympic competitors know this secret. Top performing sales people know this secret. Celebrity personal trainers know this secret. Russian scientists know this secret. The question is, are YOU using this secret to create the life of your dreams? The secret I'm talking about is the power of visualization. Once you learn how to use it and practice it, you'll be able to unleash the hidden talents, potential, and genius your mind possesses... in just minutes a day. Interested? Keep reading... Visualization, autosuggestion, and affirmations have been scientifically proven to boost human potential, allowing you to achieve your goals and create the life of your dreams. The "ancients" have known about the power of the mind and now modern science backs up what people have known for centuries. Learning how to visualize your ideal outcome is one of the most powerful, life-changing, potent skills you can ever have. It allows you to convince your subconscious mind that you have already achieved your goal so that it uses your talents, focuses your abilities, and highlights opportunities so that you can achieve any goal and have the life of your dreams. It's no exaggeration to say that spending a few minutes a day learning to "remember the future" will reap benefits for decades to come. In this short book, you will discover how to ruthlessly pursue your goals by imagining it as having already been accomplished. You will see, hear, touch, smell and taste it vividly and passionately. You will feel excited, hopeful, thankful, and powerful. You'll discover simple, actionable, quick steps you can take to maximize your visualize your ideal outcome and how to deal with the inevitable contingencies life throws your way. This is a scientifically proven, research-backed way to develop, harness, and unleash the power of your mind. Buy this book today to discover how to use visualization to "remember the future"and create it. This is book 4 in the "Train Your Brain" series.

Portraits of the Mind

Author : Carl Schoonover
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810990333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of the Mind written by Carl Schoonover and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portraits of the Mind follows the fascinating history of our exploration of the brain through images, from medieval sketches and 19th-century drawings by the founder of modern neuroscience to images produced using state-of-the-art techniques, allowing us to see the fantastic networks in the brain as never before. These black-and-white and vibrantly colored images, many resembling abstract art, are employed daily by scientists around the world, but most have never before been seen by the general public. Each chapter addresses a different set of techniques for studying the brain as revealed through the images, and each is introduced by a leading scientist in that field of study. Author Carl Schoonover's captions provide detailed explanations of each image as well as the major insights gained by scientists over the course of the past 20 years. Accessible to a wide audience, this book reveals the elegant methods applied to study the mind, giving readers a peek at its innermost workings, helping us to understand them, and offering clues about what may lie ahead. Praise for Portraits of the Mind: "An odyssey through the brain, illuminated by a rainbow" --New York Times "Stunning images" --Scientific American "The collection of images in the new book Portraits of the Mind is truly impressive . . . The mix of history, science and art is terrific." -Wired.com "History, science, and art come together to provide a unique perspective on what's going on upstairs." --New Yorker.com "No knowledge of the source or subject matter of these images is necessary; the book is justified by their beauty alone." --Science "A remarkable new book" - -Discover.com "John Keats's insistence that truth is beauty is exemplified by Carl Schoonover's wonderful book Portraits of the Mind. Since one cannot understand the present without examining the past, this book offers a delightful and instructive way of accomplishing just that. I enthusiastically recommend this beautiful book both to students of brain science and to lovers of art." -Eric R. Kandel, MD, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2000; University Professor at Columbia; Fred Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute; and author of In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind "Portraits of the Mind achieves a rare combination of beauty and knowledge. Its images of the brain are mesmerizing, from medieval engravings to modern visualizations as gorgeously abstract as anything by Rothko or de Kooning. And in explaining the nature of these images, this book also delivers an enlightening, up-to-date history of neuroscience." -Carl Zimmer, author of Soul Made Flesh: The Discovery of the Brain-and How It Changed the World and The Mind's Eye Goes Blind: Fifteen Journeys Through the Brain "Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized over the centuries, as well as lively and authoritative commentaries by some of today's leading neuroscientists. It will be enjoyed by professionals and general readers alike." --Dale Purves, MD, Professor of Neurobiology, Psychology and Neuroscience; and Philosophy at Duke University

The Mind's Eye

Author : Ian Robertson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 144642328X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book The Mind's Eye written by Ian Robertson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A picture is worth a thousand words, or so they say. Yet our world, our civilisation has grown up on a foundation of words - laws, constitutions, treaties, charters, creeds - words that have tamed and liberated in equal measure. Our education, from earliest childhood, emphasises the importance of words. We take the world before our eyes and define it in a verbal language, and in so doing we capture it, understand it, celebrate it. But there are costs. In our reliance on the cold efficency of language we have neglected the wordless ways of the brain. The uniquely complex human mind is capable of the most exquisite images and visions. But visualisation is not merely about sight and the imagined, it is about the way we interact with the world through our five senses. In THE MIND'S EYE Ian Robertson demonstrates how we are underutilising our brain's powers of visualisation. Taking the lessons of hard science, he explains how the brain works and how important visualisation can be. But more importantly, how we can all unleash the awesome power of our brains. Following simple exercises Ian Robertson describes how visualisation can: improve memory and learning power be the key to creative thinking and problem solving offer powerful ways of combating stress fight physical illness and pain enrich musical and artistic experience enhance sporting skill and strength In his trademark accessible and imaginative style, Ian Robertson brings to life the hidden workings of the brain, and teaches us all how we can best capitalise on our inate abilities. A must read for anyone interested in how the brain works, or unlocking our mind's full potential.

Champions of Illusion

Author : Susana Martinez-Conde
Publisher : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374120404
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Champions of Illusion written by Susana Martinez-Conde and published by Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of visual illusions with explanations of the science behind them, gathered from the Best Illusions of the Year contest. --

In and Out of the Mind

Author : Ruth Padel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691037660
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book In and Out of the Mind written by Ruth Padel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Greek conceptions of human innerness and the way in which Greek tragedy shaped European notions of mind and self.

Image And Brain

Author : Stephen M. Kosslyn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262611244
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Image And Brain written by Stephen M. Kosslyn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996-08-26 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image and Brain marshals insights and empirical results from computer vision, neuroscience, and cognitive science to develop a general theory of visual mental imagery, its relation to visual perception, and its implementation in the human brain. It offers a definitive resolution to the long-standing debate about the nature of the internal representation of visual mental imagery. Kosslyn reviews evidence that perception and representation are inextricably linked, and goes on to show how "quasi-pictorial" events in the brain are generated, interpreted, and used in cognition. The theory is tested with brain-scanning techniques that provide stronger evidence than has been possible in the past. Known for his work in high-level vision, one of the most empirically successful areas of experimental psychology, Kosslyn uses a highly interdisciplinary approach. He reviews and integrates an extensive amount of literature in a coherent presentation, and reports a wide range of new findings using a host of techniques. A Bradford Book

Mind Over Matter

Author : Storm Thorgerson
Publisher : Omnibus Press
ISBN 13 : 9781468314489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Mind Over Matter written by Storm Thorgerson and published by Omnibus Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comprehensive collection of the late Storm Thorgerson's iconic designs for Pink Floyd

Ghosts in the Mind's Machine

Author : Stephen Michael Kosslyn
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393952575
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts in the Mind's Machine written by Stephen Michael Kosslyn and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thinking in Pictures

Author : Temple Grandin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679772897
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Thinking in Pictures written by Temple Grandin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unprecedented book, a gifted animal scientist who is also autistic, delivers a report on autism, written from her unique perspective. What emerges is the document of an extraordinary human being, one who bridges the gulf between her condition and our own, shedding light on the riddle of our common identity.

The Image of the City

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262620017
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Mental Imagery

Author : Alan Richardson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662378175
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Mental Imagery written by Alan Richardson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Image in Mind

Author : Charles Taliaferro
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847064825
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Image in Mind written by Charles Taliaferro and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosophical inquiry into the strengths and weaknesses of theism and naturalism in accounting for the emergence of consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. The authors begin by offering an account of modern scientific practice which gives a central place to the visual imagination and aesthetic values. They then move to test the explanatory power of naturalism and theism in accounting for consciousness and the very visual imagination and aesthetic values that lie behind and define modern science. Taliaferro and Evans argue that evolutionary biology alone is insufficient to account for consciousness, the visual imagination and aesthetic values. Insofar as naturalism is compelled to go beyond evolutionary biology, it does not fare as well as theism in terms of explanatory power.

Aphantasia

Author : Alan Kendle
Publisher : Dark River
ISBN 13 : 9781911121428
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Aphantasia written by Alan Kendle and published by Dark River. This book was released on 2017 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close your eyes and picture a sunrise. For the majority of people, the ability to visualize images - such as a sunrise - seems straightforward, and can be accomplished 'on demand'. But, for potentially some 2% of the population, conjuring up an image in one's mind's eye is not possible; attempts to visualize images just bring up darkness. Although identified back in the 19th century, Aphantasia remained under the radar for more than a century, and it was not until recently that it has been rediscovered and re-examined. It has become clear that Aphantasia is a fascinating and often idiosyncratic condition, and typically more complex than the simple absence of an ability to visualize. People with the condition - Aphants - commonly report effects upon their abilities to recreate sounds, smells and touches as well; many also struggle with facial recognition. Paradoxically, many Aphants report that when they sleep, their dreams incorporate colour images, sound, and the other senses. Put together by lead author Alan Kendle - who discovered his Aphantasia in 2016 - this title is a collection of insights from contributors across the world detailing their lives with the condition. It offers rich, diverse, and often amusing insights and experiences into Aphantasia's effects. For anyone who wishes to understand this most intriguing condition better, the book provides a wonderful and succinct starting point. Foreword by Professor Adam Zeman, Professor of Cognitive and Behavioural Neurology, University of Exeter