Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
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communications offices.
In an effort to unlock the secrets of the brain and creativity, Johns Hopkins cognitive scientists Barbara Landau and Michael McCloskey are studying Lonni Sue Johnson, an artist who contracted viral encephalitis in 2007.
September 12, 2011 Tags: "Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist's Journey Through Amnesia", art, artist, Barbara Landau, creativity, imagination, Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Lonni Sue Johnson, memory-impairing brain damage, Michael McCloskey, the creative brain, viral encephalitis, Walters Art Museum
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Psychology
A $484,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the Program in Museums and Society at The Johns Hopkins University to expand both its course offerings and its staff.
January 19, 2011 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Baltimore Museum of Art, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Program in Museums and Society, Walters Art Museum
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News
For centuries, philosophers have speculated about the links between beauty, human perception, creativity and pleasure. In recent years, scientists have learned a great deal about sensory systems and human response to the visual world, three-dimensional space, sound, touch, taste and smell. To further explore these ideas, the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute will host a two-day public symposium titled, “The Science of the Arts: Perceptual Neuroscience and Aesthetics” on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 20 and 21 at the American Visionary Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
October 12, 2010 Tags: aesthetics, American Visionary Arts Museum, architecture, ballet, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, brain science, dance, John Griffin, music, neuroscience, painting, Peabody Institute, Richard Huganir, sculpture, sensory systems, the arts, The Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute, Walters Art Museum
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Engineering, Environment, Events Open to the Public, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Psychology, Social Sciences, Technology
