The class featured weekly lectures by faculty fellows of UCI’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory, including world-class neuroscientists James McGaugh, Gregory Hickok, Elizabeth Loftus, and Michael Yassa. They addressed topics such as how to efficiently “create” memories for characters, how characters would realistically respond to onstage stimuli based on these memories and how to manipulate emotions physiologically – for instance, hanging the head and starting to cry. McGaugh, who minored in drama in college, has studied the neurobiology of learning and memory for more than 60 years. He compares Ihrig’s technique to absorbing the meaning of a song before singing the words – it enriches the experience for both singer and audience. The students put the advice into practice, doing exercises each week designed to apply neurological principles to characters onstage and reverse-engineer human behavior. They spout monologues at each other, craft perfect facial expressions and come up with plausible memories for their dramatic personas. At the end of the course, as a final exam, the students will write and act their own roles, animated with memories and emotions they have invented, in hopes that their performances will exhibit greater depth and honesty.

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