July 1st, 1997 - June 30th, 2002 | PROJECT
Carnegie Mellon University is developing an interactive, multimedia planetarium presentation about the human brain. The interdisciplinary project team will build upon and refine the experience gained from its recently completed planetarium show, Journey Into the Living Cell. The context for this work is the need for increased public understanding of the human brain - an organ central to the very concept of humanity. The understanding of the human brain is located at the lively crossroads of research in many disciplines, including psychiatry, psychology, neuroscience, computer science and biology. The proposed medium to address this important issue is a 45-minute planetarium show. A broad audience ranging from pre-adolescent to adult will be targeted. Sophisticated and entertaining imaging technologies, including animation and virtual reality, will be used throughout the work. Narration and sound will be tightly integrated into the work. The hemispherical display surface of the planetarium will be fully utilized both visually and sonically. Recent advances in the brain sciences as well as long held understandings about the brain will be presented. Basic brain biology and principles of brain function including cooperativity in brain region activity and brain region specialization will be introduced.
Project Website(s)
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Team Members
James McClelland, Principal Investigator, Carnegie-Mellon UniversityPaul Oles, Co-Principal Investigator, Carnegie-Mellon University
Bryan Rogers, Co-Principal Investigator, Carnegie-Mellon University
Funders
Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: ISE/AISL
Award Number: 9705491
Funding Amount: 1738246
Tags
Audience: Adults | General Public | Middle School Children (11-13) | Museum | ISE Professionals | Youth | Teen (up to 17)
Discipline: Computing and information science | Health and medicine | Life science | Social science and psychology
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Media and Technology | Planetarium and Science on a Sphere