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Arthur Shimamura

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Arthur Shimamura is a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and has spent his scientific career studying the brain processes underlying human learning and memory. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to explore links between art, mind, and the brain, and in this arena he has conducted experiments on the psychology of film, authored Experiencing Art: In the Brain of the Beholder, and edited two volumes: Psychocinematics: Exploring Cognition at the Movies and Aesthetic Science: Connecting Brains, Minds, and Experience (with Stephen S. Palmer). He currently spends his time writing about art, science, memory, and the brain.

Articles by Arthur Shimamura

Picturing Motion in Photography: When Time Stands Still

by Arthur Shimamura | Jan 4, 2016

Picturing Motion in Photography: When Time Stands Still

by Arthur Shimamura | Jan 4, 2016

UC Berkeley professor Arthur Shimamura shares the history behind the work of early photographers Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and how each used the camera to capture movement.

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