Cinema Science: Journeying Within in 'Inside Out'

Depicting the psyche of an eleven-year-old girl as a world unto itself controlled by anthropomorphised emotions, Pete Docter's animated children's film effectively represents – albeit with some elisions – current scientific understandings of memory, dreams and emotional classification. As Dave Crewe outlines, Inside Out offers stimuli for classroom discussion on a range of relevant topics, from the creation of core memories to hippocampal replay.

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