Arthur P. Shimamura Ph.D.

Arthur P. Shimamura Ph.D., was a professor emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research program involved studies of human learning and memory using brain imaging techniques and investigations of individuals with neurological disorders. Dr. Shimamura was a founding member of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society and a scientific advisor for the San Francisco Exploratorium Science Museum. In 2008, he received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to explore links between art, aesthetics and brain. He edited a volume on the psychology of cinema, Psychocinematics: Exploring Cognition at the Movies and authored the book Experiencing Art: In the Brain of the Beholder. Art's book Get SMART! Five Steps Toward a Health Brain offers tips and information to foster healthy living and lifelong learning. Other books include A Walk Around O'ahu: My Personal Pilgrimage, MARGE: A Whole-Brain Learning Approach for Students and Teachers, and In the Mind's Eye, which showcases Shimamura's landscape, abstract, and close-up photography.