Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

NEUR 111 - SCIENCE AND ART IN DIALOGUE

Long Title: SCIENCE AND ART IN DIALOGUE: EXPERIMENT, IMAGINATION, AND THE INVENTION OF NEUROSCIENCE
Department: Neuroscience
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 1
Description: We will take up the argument that "Proust was right about memory, Cezanne was uncannily accurate about the visual cortex, and Woolf pierced the mystery of consciousness," as we discuss aspects of the brain revealed by the texts, paintings, dishes and compositions of eight modern artists.