Sites

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Sites

• http//www.ndgo.net/sfn/nerve/
• Bibliography of papers http//consc.net/mindpape
  rs
• Suffering souls
• http//www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/11/10/0811
  10fa_fact_seabrook
• Moral psych http//www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/ar
  ticle_details.php?id10126

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Neuroesthetics

• How neuroscience informs art
• How art informs neuroscience

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Neuroscience View

• Explanation of perception visual and auditory
• Explanation of emotional reaction to art
• Explanation of cognitive content
• Basis of creativity

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Artists 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

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Other Sources

• Conversations between Art and Science, U. Bristol
  (2008)
• http//www.bristol.ac.uk/cms/go/lectures/autumn-ar
  t/
• Art and Mind, U.Winchester (2004)
• Explanation of creativity
• http//www.artandmind.org

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Other Sources

• Samir Zeki
• http//www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk/

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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)

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Sacks Video

• http//fora.tv/2007/10/21/Oliver_Sacks_Musicophili
  a

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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

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Levitin Video

• http//uk.youtube.com/watch?vSn45Z9X-vgg
• http//www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.a
  spx?rID6861fID2070

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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?v0NzSh
  MiqKgQfeaturerelated

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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

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10 Principles

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

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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

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Mirror Neurons

• Why Empathy?
• How does art communicate? (drama, music, dance,
  observing an object)
• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/01.ht
  ml (14min)

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Art and New Biology of MindColumbia Univ

• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/06/412_david
  Freedberg/index.html
• http//www.columbia.edu/cu/news/media/06/421_neuro
  BioArts/

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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-mag
  ic-3-critical.php

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Magicians show Neuroscientists

• http//www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/psychology-of-mag
  ic-3-critical.php
• http//www.mindscience.org/magicsymposium/

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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.