1. Sites http://www.ndgo.net/sfn/nerve/ Bibliography of papers: http://consc.net/mindpapers http://consc.net/mindpapers Suffering souls: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/ 081110fa_fact_seabrook Moral psych: http://www.prospect- magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10126

2. Neuroesthetics How neuroscience informs art How art informs neuroscience

3. Neuroscience View Explanation of perception: visual and auditory Explanation of emotional reaction to art Explanation of cognitive content Basis of creativity

4. 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”

5. Other Sources Conversations between Art and Science, U. Bristol (2008) http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cms/go/lectures/aut umn-art/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cms/go/lectures/aut umn-art/ Art and Mind, U.Winchester (2004) Explanation of creativity http://www.artandmind.org

6. Other Sources Samir Zeki http://www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk/

7. 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)

8. Sacks Video http://fora.tv/2007/10/21/Oliver_Sacks_Mus icophilia

9. 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

10. Levitin Video http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn45Z9X- vgghttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn45Z9X- vgg http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displa yevent.aspx?rID=6861&fID=2070

11. Neuroscience Visual Art V Ramachandran suggested 10 universal laws (principles) of art in A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness (2004) Another video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzShMiq KgQ&feature=related

12. 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

13. 10 Principles Abhorrence of coincidence/generic viewpoint Repetition, rhythm, and orderliness Balance Metaphor http://www.imprint.co.uk/rama/art.pdf

14. 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

15. Mirror Neurons Why Empathy? How does art communicate? (drama, music, dance, observing an object) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/ 3204/01.html (14min)http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/ 3204/01.html

16. Art and New Biology of Mind Columbia Univ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/06 /412_davidFreedberg/index.html http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/06 /421_neuroBioArts/

17. Neuroscience of Magic Misdirection, overt and covert Overt: Direct focus of attention away from “action” Covert: change blindness and inattention blindness http://www.mindscience.org/magicsymposium Magicians and Neuroscientists http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/psychology-of- magic-3-critical.phphttp://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/psychology-of- magic-3-critical.php

18. Magicians show Neuroscientists http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/psycholo gy-of-magic-3-critical.phphttp://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/psycholo gy-of-magic-3-critical.php http://www.mindscience.org/magicsymposi um/

19. 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…….