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Shakespeare as Observer and Psychologist – Professor Paul Matthews (Fellow by Special Election, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford; Edmond and Lily Safra Chair and Head of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London)

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Paul 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.

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Series
Shakespeare and the Brain
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Paul Matthews
Keywords
shakespeare
brain
neuroscience
literature
Renaissance literature
drama
Department: St Edmund Hall
Date Added: 12/12/2016
Duration: 00:33:13

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