Word: frontal
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...asked what the brain was doing differently during experiences which were remembered," Wagner says. "The scan showed greater activation in the left frontal and left temporal region when people paid attention to the semantic meaning of words...
...left frontal region is the area of the brain behind the temple. The left temporal lobe is the area behind that. Previous neuroimaging studies have identified the parahippocamal cortex, the inner wall of the left temporal region, as particularly important in memory formation. Due to advances in MRI techniques, the activated regions can now be localized with greater precision than previously possible...
Does this mean that the left frontal and left temporal regions of the brain are responsible for memory formation? A similar study done by James Brewer of Stanford University showed that different areas of the brain are responsible for remembering (and possibly retrieving, although that was not studied) different types of events. In Brewer's experiment, subjects were shown pictures, not words, and greater activity was concentrated in the right frontal and right temporal regions of the brain...
...filming works particularly well. Frequent images of a Fisher Price record player serve as a continual reminder that Joey and Sissel are themselves merely children, prematurely throwing themselves into an adult world. And the reflections on the their window which just barely mask some rather gratuitous full-frontal nudity reinforce the suggestion that even in their purest states, something about these characters will continue to remain concealed. All in all, pains were clearly taken to ensure that the visual component of the movie would be well suited to some of its most important themes...
...small movement, Photo-Realism, was one of the spin-offs from Pop Art--but nobody took it as far as Close, or with such riveting effects. These are lost in reproduction--the image shrinks back to being just another photo, and its command on your attention (huge, august, frontal, like the head of a Pantocrator from a Byzantine apse) vanishes. Only from the originals can one grasp what Close means when he says, in a catalog interview with curator Storr, that "I wanted to make something that was impersonal and personal, arm's-length and intimate, minimal and maximal, using...