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Blink and Legacy of Ashes

Jul 26, 2009 01:23

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don't blink sanpedrosula August 26 2009, 15:29:28 UTC

I, too, was amazed by Blink. I plan to use it in my film classes--along with an article in the NY Times about hunches--with the idea that I can teach students to hone their visual sense and pick up on things that are going by quickly in a film. What do you think?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/health/research/28brain.html?scp=1&sq=hunch&st=cse

I'm also into mirror neurons and Paul Ekman's work on lying as ways of thinking about movement and facial expression in film.

I hope you are well and happy there!
We miss you.

s.

Re: don't blink tommix September 24 2009, 03:33:32 UTC

I've recently become very interested in cognitive processes and how we make decisions, but I hadn't thought about linking it to film. I had simply been thinking about students and critical thinking. There are a ton of recent books about decision making, from Leher's "How We Decide" (not very good), Ariely's "Predictably Irrational," Damasio's "Descartes Error," George Lakoff's "The Political Mind" and Sam Wang.

Everything has been great here. I love it. I'm living the dream.