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Minding the News

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge

Mark Turner's research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news, with an emphasis on blended joint attention, story-telling, counterfactuality, and hypotheticals.

George Lakoff, “The Brain’s Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why”

MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge

Everything we learn, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood, how campaigns are framed, why conservatives and progressives talk past each other, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do — and what they can do about it.