Neuroscience + Art

        Neuroscience is a fascinating study in the world that can unlock or help humans understand the specifics of their own brains. A part of neuroscience studies that interests me is how memory works. Long-term memory is ingrained with the assumption that a certain task can measure a single cognitive process and that each process is mediated by a single brain region. There are many things that can affect memory such as electrophysiological and behaviors. They provide evidence that indicates how implicit memory can influence explicit memory measures. Memories overall are made by changes in collections of neurons and the connections between them. Each time we think back to a memory, it may change depending on the neural circuits that are engaged at the time while recalling something. That is why remembering isn't the same way every time while looking at memories. 




        Art and Neuroscience have a strange connection to each other. The relationship is fundamentally creative as the perception of the brain's interpretation of art in the world. Neuroscience helps us to understand specific models of the world that the brain uses to make sense of incoming visual data. Because of this, we are able to make architecture in certain ways thanks to neuroscience showing the complexity of how things can work. 



        An example of how art and neuroscience are making the future with different technologies is Vesna's project with Octopus tentacles. The experiment attempts to connect two people's thought processes by generating affective and cognitive engagement, it elicits an enhanced consciousness of relations that surpass species boundaries. That is why an octopus is referenced in this experiment as it goes beyond what our species can do.





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“Cristina Albu.” CMA Journal - Simon Fraser University, www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-ten--enchantment--disenchantment--reenchantment/cristina-albu.html?fbclid=IwAR1twyrqbeKqNrJSUXSihLVGvX_D9ARndxDv3USnw2pTENE_iXHJtIo8v54. Accessed 19 May 2023.



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Slotnick, Scott D. “The cognitive neuroscience of memory.” Cognitive neuroscience vol. 3,3-4 (2012): 139-41. doi:10.1080/17588928.2012.696536

“What Is Memory.” UCLA Med School, 3 Mar. 2023, medschool.ucla.edu/research/themed-areas/ucla-neuroscience-research-theme/the-working-brain/what-is-memory#:~:text=Memories%20are%20made%20by%20changes,engaged%20at%20that%20particular%20moment. 

Connie Blaszczyk  |  Center for Art. “3Q: The Interface between Art and Neuroscience.” MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, news.mit.edu/2019/3-questions-sarah-schwettmann-interface-between-art-and-neuroscience-0416. Accessed 19 May 2023.

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“Cristina Albu.” CMA Journal - Simon Fraser University, www.sfu.ca/cmajournal/issues/issue-ten--enchantment--disenchantment--reenchantment/cristina-albu.html?fbclid=IwAR1twyrqbeKqNrJSUXSihLVGvX_D9ARndxDv3USnw2pTENE_iXHJtIo8v54. Accessed 19 May 2023.

 

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