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Story, Metaphor, Vision:

Cognitive Science and the Humanities

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Conference Speakers

Steven Pinker
Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology
Cognitive Scientist
Harvard University - Department of Psychology Paper Title: The Humanities and the Human Mind
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David Freedberg
Director, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
Professor of Art History, Columbia University Paper Title:  Empathy, Motion and Emotion in the History of Art

Mark L. Johnson
Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences University of Oregon, Department of Philosophy
Paper Title: Imagination Incarnate

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Margaret Livingstone
Professor of Neurobiology                                 Harvard Medical School
Paper Title: Vision and Art

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V.S. Ramachandran
University of California, San Diego
Paper Title:  The Human Brain:  A Bridge Between the Two Cultures

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Brian Rotman
Department of Comparative Studies and Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design
Ohio State University
Paper Title:  Some Remarks on the Virtual
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Elaine Scarry
Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value                                           English Department, Harvard University
Paper Title: Imagining Colors
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Eve Sweetser
Professor of Linguistics                             University of California, Berkeley
Paper Title:  "Viewpoints": Concrete, Abstract, Visual/Gestural and Literary

Mark Turner
College of Arts and Sciences
Case Western Reserve University
Paper Title: The Confluence of Story, Metaphor, and Vision
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Semir Zeki
Professor of Neurobiology                               Dept. Anatomy, University College London
Paper Title: Ambiguity in Art and the Brain

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