Category: Science for Dummies

06/06/2017 Claudia Feitosa Santana | education | science | technology Feitosa-Santana

Neuroeconomics: Decision Making

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05/01/2013 Emilien Neron | Mohamed Fellag | Monsieur Lazhar | Monsieur Lazhar Movie 2012 | Philippe Falardeau | Sophie Nelisse Feitosa-Santana

Monsieur Lazhar (2012)

Monsieur Lazhar touches the children world, the death world, the immigrant world, the silent world, the unfair world. In other words, it is about oppression and omission. All a child need is love and safeness to express themselves… Review by Stephen Holden: “”In the indelible opening scene of Philippe Falardeau’s “Monsieur Lazhar,” Simon (Émilien Néron), a sixth grader at […]

31/07/2012 Audrey Heller | Color Constancy | constancies | Constancy | science | Shape Constancy | Size Constancy | visual angle Feitosa-Santana

Perceptual Constancy and Audrey Heller’s Photography

Perceptual constancy is an important aspect of our interaction with the world. The size constancy is the easiest one to understand. For example, two telephone poles look the same size when the first is viewed from 100 meters and when the second is viewed from 1 meter, even though the visual angle is very different. A […]

29/07/2012 brain state and mental state | ciencia para leigos | Cinema | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | hollywood | Localized and Distributed Brain Activity | mind and brain | science | science for lay people | Would you Erase me? Feitosa-Santana

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Would you erase me from your life and memory? The movie “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind” underlies the scientific discussion about whether our mind is governed by localized or distributed activity in the brain. Is the neural orchestra of our mental functions localized or distributed throughout the brain? The movie starts with the localized […]