Essays
by Michael Pearce
While highly robust and reliable perceptual phenomena (often visual illusions) have long been a staple of science centers, exhibits about other areas of human thought and behavior—problem solving, emotion, language, decision-making, consciousness—have been less common. read more…
Coming Attractions: Moving images in psychology exhibits
by Michael Pearce
While planning the current Exploratorium exhibit development project, Attention, Emotion, and Judgment: How do minds figure out what to do?, we noticed that the use of film or video came up in a lot of our ideas for exhibits and programs. We called attention to this in our NSF proposal: read more…
