Learning on ScreenShakespeare As Observer and Psychologist
- Synopsis
- Video podcast. A series of talks from an interdisciplinary event held by the St Edmund Hall Centre for the Creative Brain in Oxford on 26 November 2016. The speakers interpret the theme of ‘Shakespeare and the Brain’ in various ways, examining it from the perspective of literature scholars, neuroscientists and actors. All the talks are aimed at a non-specialist audience. In this edition Paul Matthews focuses on some of the questions that Shakespeare was asking about the mind, and how the same sorts of issues are approached now by neuroscientists. In this talk, Paul looks at which areas of the brain are activated when we encounter imagery or a functional shift, and discusses whether it is processed in a separate space or if we experience something akin to the events that the words are describing.
- Series
- Shakespeare and the Brain
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video
- Technical information
- Colour / Sound
- Notes
- Accessed 2/2017.
- Subjects
- Drama; Science
- Keywords
- brain sciences; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
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Credits
- Contributor
- Paul Matthews (1)
Production Company
- Name
University of Oxford, Faculty of English
- Web
- http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk External site opens in new window
Distributor
- Name
University of Oxford Podcasts
- Web
- http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ External site opens in new window
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