Eye of the Beholder

• TIME: 7:30pm
  PLACE: The Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd St, 3rd Floor, between 2nd and 3rd Ave
  COST: FREE
• SUMMARY: “This roundtable will focus on the visual and plastic arts as they relate to the phenomenon of mirror neurons. A recent discovery in the brains of primates, mirror neurons are special neurons that show activity both when a subject performs an action and when it observes the same action performed by another. Some scientists consider mirror neurons one of the most important findings in neuroscience in the last decade, in part because they are thought to be responsible for the empathic response in humans…The discussion will center on how neuroscientific discoveries can illuminate creativity, and in turn influence our understanding of how we perceive art and how it functions on both an individual and societal level.”