Author : Sean Spence
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198526660
Is free will just an illusion? What is it in the brain that allows us to pursue our own actions and objectives? What is it about this organ that permits seemingly purposeful behaviour, giving us the impression we are free? This book takes a journey into the brain to examine what is about known voluntary behaviour, and why it can go wrong.
Author : Rhonda Blair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 39,55 MB
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135976244
Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience, in the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience and their crucial importance to an actor’s engagement with a role.
Author : Ramon Delgado
Publisher : New York : Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 11,4 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Acting
ISBN : 9780030001048
"Research on right and left hemisphere brain functions provides a metaphor and possibly even a physical explanation for the dual nature of the performing experience. Investigations by psychologists and neurologists suggest that the creative, non-verbal functions of the right hemisphere of the brain are equally important to our balance as whole personalities as is the dominant left hemisphere of the brain, long believed to direct logical and verbal functions. If the dominant left hemisphere can be temporarily overridden, we gain access to the creative right functions and a healthy balance occurs. It is this balance between the two hemispheres which creates the double awareness that the audience has of the performer as both actor and character. It is the balance which permits actors the simultaneous experience of emotional release and emotional control. Further study convinced the author the right-brain/left-brain approach was indeed a useful way of organizing the development of the creative processes."--Publisher description.
Author : David Rock
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0061943541
In Your Brain at Work, David Rock takes readers inside the heads—literally—of a modern two-career couple as they mentally process their workday to reveal how we can better organize, prioritize, remember, and process our daily lives. Rock, the author of Quiet Leadership and Personal Best, shows how it’s possible for this couple, and thus the reader, not only to survive in today’s overwhelming work environment but succeed in it—and still feel energized and accomplished at the end of the day.
Author : Anthony Meindl
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2012-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780615534862
."..shows you how to silence the noise of your left brain, ignite your creative side, and live the life you've always imagined"--P. [4] of cover.
Author : Brian Falkner
Publisher : Ember
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375843671
A Top Ten YALSA Pick for Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults! Fans of Cory Doctorow's Little Brother and M. T. Anderson's Feed will love this high-octane cyber thriller. In a dystopian near-future, neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards. Just slip on a headset, and it's the Internet at the speed of thought. For teen hacker Sam Wilson, a headset is a must. But as he masters the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to an attack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hacked? Brian Falkner, author of The Tomorrow Code and The Project, delivers an action-packed and thought-provoking sci-fi thriller in which logging on to a computer could mean the difference between life and death.
Author : Gordon G. Globus
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789027251947
This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to think together in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have suffered conceptual estrangement but now are ripe for rapprochement, if academic parochialism is put aside. A prevalent theme of the book is a moving away from individual elements and individual actors acting upon each other, toward a coordinate hermeneutic dynamics that manifests as a coherent totality. Among the topics covered are image in photography and in neuroscience; language; time; brain and mathematics; quantum brain dynamics and quantum communication.
Author : William Finn
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,43 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573627134
"an energetic, sardonic, often comical musical about a composer during a medical emergency. Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the hospital, surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover, his mother, a co-worker, the doctor, and the nurses. Reluctantly, he had been composing a song for a children’s television show that features a frog – Mr. Bungee – and the specter of this large green character and the unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal. What was thought to be a tumor turns out to be something more operable, and Gordon recovers, grateful for a chance to compose the songs he yearns to produce."--Publisher.
Author : Alexa Ispas
Publisher : Word Bothy
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1913926060
Imagine if you could learn your lines in half the time yet feel confident they will roll off your tongue when needed. Memorization for Actors provides you with a range of practical psychology tools and a bullet-proof memorization process that will put you miles ahead of the competition. Inside you will discover: · How to become a master at learning your lines · Simple tricks to learn more lines in less time · Advanced tools to turbo-charge your memorization process · Proven strategies to remember your lines in high stress situations · When to schedule your memorization sessions for maximum effect Short enough to read in an afternoon, yet jam-packed with practical advice, Memorization for Actors will transform your acting career. This is recommended reading for any actor, from acting students to experienced professionals. Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The books in her Psychology for Actors Series provide actors with proven psychology techniques to thrive and build a successful career.
Author : Giacomo Rizzolatti
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 019921798X
When we witness a great actor, musician, or sportsperson performing, we share something of their experience. It become clear just how this sharing of experience is realised within the human brain. This text provides an accessible overview of mirror neurons, written by the man who first discovered them.
