Why do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We live in a time where the power of images has strongly invaded our everyday life, and we need new instruments and methods to better understand our relationship with the virtual worlds we inhabit every day. Taking cinema as the beginning of our relationship with the world of moving images, and cognitive neuros...

Non sono vivi, com'è vivo un gatto o un albero, ma non sono nemmeno semplici cose o strumenti. I media digitali sono un mondo di vibranti schermi, grandi e piccoli, di immagini e testi, di tracce che disseminiamo, oltre il tempo e lo spazio, di creature-oggetti sconosciute e quindi piene di potenzialità cognitive e affettive, ma che possono anche presentare dei pericoli. Come le entità viventi, i media vivono – o meglio, quasi vivono – in modo indipendente, secondo logiche digitali che a v...

Neurobiological research helps explain the experience of motherhood.This book, the exciting collaboration of a developmental psychoanalyst at the forefront of functional magnetic resonance attachment research and a leading neurobiological researcher on mirror neurons, presents a fresh and innovative look at intersubjectivity from a neurobiological and developmental perspective. Grounding their analysis of intersubjectivity in the newest advances from developmental ...