Video Lies and False Memory: How Visual Media Shapes Our Brains

Ann Marie Barry

Thursday, 04 Dec 2003 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Ann Marie Barry is a Boston College professor of communications and author of Visual Intelligence: Perception, Image, and Manipulation in Visual Communication; The Advertising Portfolio, and many articles and creative works on the neurology of image, graphic design, and media studies. She is at work on a new book How Images Mean.

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