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50% off (Sale price $175.00, Reg. Price $350.00) :: Choice of: One Month of Acting Classes (Four Sessions) Two Months of Acting Classes (Eight Sessions)Classes focus on getting actors working, and each week material that is currently being cast for or filmed is brought to class and rehearsed in a live, on-set location. Classes also account for individual actor needs and concerns by covering ballistics, character development, scene study, cold reading, monologue preparation, and commercial improv.The Psychology of Memory: Forging Pathways Through the BrainOne thing youll definitely need to bring to class is a working memory. Read on to explore the process by which memories are embedded into our brains.The capital of New Zealand. Last years Oscar winner for Best Actress. Can you bring these names to mind, or do they feel like theyre just out of reach, dancing on the tip of your tongue? In fact, cognitive psychologists formally describe this phenomenon as a TOT—tip-of-tongue—state, and it can help illustrate the complex processes that occur (or fail to) as the brain embeds and retrieves information for later use. One thing that a TOT state tells us is that memory is not a matter of sending a search query into the brains depths and coming back with a complete unit of experience (i.e., having studied New Zealand in sixth grade) that wed once filed away. Different parts of memories are stored in different regions throughout the brain, depending on their nature—words, for instance, are not kept in the same place as faces. That storage system gets kicked into gear as each thing we see, touch, smell, and hear is processed by our sensory and short-term memories, where the information is mulled over for a few seconds and either discarded or transferred to long-term storage. Through rehearsal, or repetition, a short-term memory becomes a long-term one, where it resides among our most deeply embedded recollections: a wedding, the birth of a child, the words to our favorite mattress-store jingle. Acquiring new skills creates additional pathways, which—like ruts in a dirt roa
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