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Neuroscientists once believed your brain was essentially "locked down" by adulthood. No new cells. No major changes. If you grew up depressed, angry, sad, aggre

Portraits of the Mind follows the fascinating history of our exploration of the brain through images, from medieval sketches and 19th-century drawings by the fo

Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas

Living in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans through the images the media show. This text offers a look at the racial patterns

People today are constantly bombarded with a wide variety of visual images. How do we interpret them? What causes us to respond to them emotionally? And how doe