The collaborative exhibit between the Walters Art Museum and the JHU Cognitive Science department, Puzzles of the Brain: An Artist’s Journey through Amnesia, has opened! The exhibit runs through Dec. 11; the exhibit webpage is here. The show tells the story of Lonni Sue Johnson, an accomplished artist who suffered severe brain damage to the hippocampus and left temporal lobe and consequent amnesia, and the recovery art she produced during intensive art therapy.
On October 2, from 2:00-3:30pm. there will be a public program at the Walters, featuring a talk on the on-going science of this project (given by Mike McCloskey) and an interview by Gary Vikan (Director of the Museum) with the artist’s mother, Margaret Kennard Johnson (an artist herself who directed the therapy). Please join us!
More about the exhibit
See the JHU produced video featuring faculty members Barbara Landau and Mike McCloskey, and listen to them explain the scientific background. The JHU press release.
Press coverage
Welcome to Fall semester 2011, and to the new CogSci news and announcements blog! We’ll be regularly posting updates related to the department here.
For this first issue, we have plenty of news, including: more information about the website and this blog, details about the upcoming collaborative exhibit between CogSci and the Walters Art Museum, a welcome to our new faculty members and graduate students, a congratulations to Colin Wilson on his recently awarded NSF grant (collaborative with alum Lisa Davidson), upcoming events and talks by department members, and more!