Join Bass Connections Brain & Society Teams for Brain Awareness Week

On Thursday, March 31at 5:00 and 7:00 p.m., the Bass Connections Art, Vision and the Brain project team will facilitate a discussion on their installation, Making Faces: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience at the Nasher Museum of Art.

These two conversations will be a part of Duke’s 2016 Brain Awareness Week sponsored by the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. Team members will discuss their research exploring how our brains evaluate physical features and make sense of the world around us.

The Art, Vision and the Brain project team investigates perceptual and neurophysiological responses to many kinds of visual stimuli in humans and primates. How do humans and primates process facial images? How does that process change over time? A specific focus of the team’s work is examining how children and adults with retinal, neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders process images differently.

Currently, the team is building software that can be used to evaluate shape and face discrimination in human subjects that could be used as home visual function monitoring tools. Ultimately, Art, Vision and the Brain is using art to uncover how the brain makes sense of both visual and social worlds and why our brains respond the way they do to a variety of art forms.

If you miss the gallery talks, this team and others in the Brain & Society theme will be showcased during DIBS Discovery Day on Sunday, April 3 from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. This event is open and free to the public.

Learn more about the Brain & Society project teams and how to get involved with Bass Connections.