Sites Bibliography of papers: Suffering souls: fa_fact_seabrook Moral psych: magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10126
Neuroesthetics How neuroscience informs art How art informs neuroscience
Neuroscience View Explanation of perception: visual and auditory Explanation of emotional reaction to art Explanation of cognitive content Basis of creativity
Artist’s view Proust Was a Neuroscientist (Jonah Leher, 2007) Artists often anticipated findings of neuroscience Walt Whitman “I sing the Body Electric” Marcel Proust Aroma and memory Paul Cezanne “I could not copy nature”
Other Sources Conversations between Art and Science, U. Bristol (2008) umn-art/ umn-art/ Art and Mind, U.Winchester (2004) Explanation of creativity
Other Sources Samir Zeki
Neuroscience Music Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks 2008) Musical seizures/hallucinations Amusia: rhythm, tone, harmony etc Absolute Pitch: age, blindness, autism (Mozart not Wagner) Musical Savants: autistic, retarded, (TMS) Music and Synesthesia: color effects (Scriabin, Rimsky-Korsakov)
Sacks Video icophilia
Neuroscience Music This is Your Brain on Music (Daniel Levitin, 2007) What is music? Sound to emotions What makes a musician? Some inate characteristics plus 10,000 hours
Levitin Video vgghttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn45Z9X- vgg yevent.aspx?rID=6861&fID=2070
Neuroscience Visual Art V Ramachandran suggested 10 universal laws (principles) of art in A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness (2004) Another video: KgQ&feature=related
10 principles of artistic delight Peak shift: herring gull, figurative primitives Grouping: combining similar parts into a whole Contrast: focus attention Isolation: line drawings focus attention Perceptual problem solving: visual foreplay Symmetry: pleasing
10 Principles Abhorrence of coincidence/generic viewpoint Repetition, rhythm, and orderliness Balance Metaphor
A definition of art Optimize the neurological states corresponding to heightened awareness of specific qualia Artist creates the objects that stimulate these states by intuition or by trial and error
Mirror Neurons Why Empathy? How does art communicate? (drama, music, dance, observing an object) /01.html (14min) 3204/01.html
Art and New Biology of Mind Columbia Univ /412_davidFreedberg/index.html /421_neuroBioArts/
Neuroscience of Magic Misdirection, overt and covert Overt: Direct focus of attention away from “action” Covert: change blindness and inattention blindness Magicians and Neuroscientists magic-3-critical.phphttp:// magic-3-critical.php
Magicians show Neuroscientists gy-of-magic-3-critical.phphttp:// gy-of-magic-3-critical.php um/
Video Wed Frontiers of Science (Alan Alda,Make Up your Mind) OR Columbia Symposium: Art and New Biology of Mind OR Ramachandran and Levitin OR…….