El Profesor Jordi Sabater Pi nos dejó el pasado 5 de agosto de 2009. El Profesor Sabater Pi fue pionero de la etología en España. Entre sus aportaciones se encuentra el descubrimiento de las áreas culturales de los chimpancés y el de varias especies animales nuevas en Guinea Ecuatorial, así como sus dibujos de observación naturalista. Desde el año 2006 colaboraba con la Cátedra “el cervell social”.

Did you miss it in Sitges? COSMONIT opens his doors to El cervell social and, with it, to terror,  perceptions,  mirages, magic...

What is fear? Why do terror films provoke fear? Why do we enjoy it so? How does the recreation of an environment have an influence on the human brain ? How does cinema take advantage of such irrational feeling?

Besides, we will discover the secrets of perception, mirages and  nonverbal communication with Sebastià Serrano and Lari magician, between others.
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A study performed by the University of Tuebingen, Germany proposes that in matters of eroticism, men and women are not quite so different. In fact, both sexes show a more intense cerebral response to voices of the opposite sex... that is, when the voice is sexy and suggestive. The authors also point out that these results show the brain as being more sensitive to voices loaded with emotions that can unleash major changes in the behaviour of the listener. Read on further

Las Ilusiones del Cerebro or “Illusions of the Brain” proposes a voyage to the interior of your neurons in a space open for participation. The 28th of October in Barcelona, research groups specialised in  perception offer a scientific fair in which research and music lend one another a hand to show that fun and knowledge always come in the same package. Hall 2 Razzmatazz, October 28th at 4 pm.   

What is the relationship between music and emotions really like? Can music be curative? What evolutionary sense does music have? What does contemporary technology bring to musical knowledge? These and other related matters will be the guides to Cosmocaixa’s Music, Neuroscience, Technology  conference, which will boast collaboration of great specialists such as neurophysiologist Robert Zatorre or psychiatrist Antoni Bulbena, member of the Social Brain Chair.

 

 

 

The workshop THE TWO FACES OF FEAR received visits from Àngel Sala, director of the Festival de Sitges, and from the film director Jaume Balagueró. During his intervention, Àngel Sala reminded us that the horror genre has been able to transform fears from each era into disturbing narrative plots. This edition of the festival, according to Sala, brings together numerous films that capture a new fear of the loss of privacy, by an omnipresent presence or third eye, the camera, which converts the spectator into a complice and voyeur of the worst nightmares imaginable. In fact, this is the leitmotiv of one of the most anticipated movies of the Festival, REC, the latest from Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. Jaume Balagueró shared the motives which drove him to film a movie of such characteristics with the attendants.

Each Monday, the director of the “Social Brain” Chair, Òscar Vilarroya invites listeners to the programme on the radio station SER, La Ventana, or “The Window” to confront and reflect on our moral dilemmas. See moral dilemma