L’Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences di Londra promuove diverse iniziative volte a divulgare la ricerca scientifica al pubblico, una di queste è il concorso “Brains on film” in cui studenti e ricercatori possono inviare dei video che raccontino qualcosa del mondo delle neuroscienze.
Il vincitore di quest’anno è il video musicale: “We didn’t start the scanner” cover umoristica della canzone di Billy Joel “We didn’t start the fire”.
Autori: Jake Fairnie & Anna Remington
Buona visione!
‘WE DIDN’T START THE SCANNER’ LYRICS:
VERSE 1:
Where on Earth Do We Start? Aristotle, Descartes,
J-P Flourens, Pigeon Lesions, Gall Phrenology.
Hughling Jackson, Brainstorm Status, Golgi and His Apparatus,
Broca, Wernike, Language Expertise.
VERSE 2:
Canine Brains, Hitzig, Fritch, Electrify and See Them Twitch,
Miller and His Magic Few, Seven Plus or Minus Two.
Neuron Theory, Drawing Cells, Ramon y Cajal Yells,
Gazzaniga Coined the Phrase with Miller in the Taxi Bays.
CHORUS:
We didn’t start the scanner – but we’ve strong attraction to that big contraption.
Get inside the magnet… we need activations for our publications.
VERSE 3:
Neisser, Sperry, Sherrington, Brodmann and His Brain Region,
Pinker, Chomsky, Hodgkin, Huxley, Phineas Gage.
Treisman and Gelade, Deutsch And Deutsch, Cherry Aid,
Broadbent, Moray, Pay Attention.
VERSE 4:
TMS PET NIRS EEG
fMRI MEG BOLD EMG
ERP SCR MMN GSR
RT SPECT — Find Out What it Means For Me.
CHORUS
VERSE 5:
Pavlov, Kiss-Me-Katz, Gregory, Sacks and Hats,
Kanwisher, FFA, Ramachandran, Piaget.
Christof Koch, Rensink, Most, Simons with Gorilla Ghost,
Tulving, Luria, Hebbian Decay.
VERSE 6:
Rizzolati, Posner, T. Robbins, Malenka,
Adrian, Owen, Saving Us from Locked-in.
Rutter, The Frith Crew, What The Hell Will Le Doux Do?
Psychos Getting Physical, Science Going Digital…
CHORUS
VERSE 7:
Alzheimers, Mattson, Vuilleumier, Emotion,
Hubel, Wiesel, Neurons Going Visual.
Subliminal Messaging, Are You Sure You’re Noticing?
Freg Gage, Braddick, Morris Going Plastic.
Flicker Paradigm, Dehaene and the Unseen Prime,
Kanizsa, Eriksen, Brains at the ICN.
CHORUS
FINAL CHORUS:
We didn’t start the scanner – but we’ve strong attraction to that big contraption.
Power down the magnet… write some publications on those activations.
