The definition of neuroscience is all of the sciences involved with the structure and/or function of the nervous system and brain. This includes different forms of psychology, as well as neurochemistry. This intensive scientific field combines with the artistic field in numerous ways, one of which is called the "Neuroculture Project", within which artist Suzanne Anker and neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto have worked together to examine how modern brain science has entered into the world of popular culture. Neuroscience has influenced certain practices in the Humanities; psychology has been a growing field due to an educational quest for brain knowledge, and fields like neuro-theology, neuro-economics, neuro-aesthetics, and neuro-education have arisen with the public becoming more and more intrigued with human behavior and the mysteries involved within our own selves.
Suzanne Anker; artist
Another sector of the brain and of neuroscience that is highly incorporated into popular culture as well as art is the science behind dreams. It has been highly researched but remains largely a mystery that confounds scientists and the public. It is said that 95% of dreams are forgotten, so that leaves the portion of dreaming that can be studied through psychoanalysis and therapy very small and insignificant. Sigmund Freud revolutionized the study of dreams in his body of work titled The Interpretation of Dreams. He is known for his belief that nothing happens by chance, and that our unconscious drives much of what we do and who we are. However, and unfortunately, according to Freud, society represses our deepest desires. We tend to conform to those repressions, and our deep-down wishes are then oftentimes expressed in our dreams. Freud believes that within every mind is the "Id", which is centered on primal pleasures, instincts and unchecked urges, but that there is a "Superego" which censors the Id and works with the "Ego" to be rational, moral, and self-aware. What happens in our unchecked unconscious pertains to our dreams, and may be reflected by them.
Short video (below) on Freudian dreaming and its incorporation into the modern science of dreams; very interesting as it details what parts of the brain are activated in your brain during REM, and how lucid dreaming isn't a myth, as many believe it may be.
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