Special feature on 'Art and the brain'.
Material type: TextSeries: Journal of consciousness studies ; 6, no. 6-7Publication details: Thorverton : Imprint Academic, 1999.Description: 205 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:- 9780907845454 (pbk.) :
- 9780907845454
- Art and the brain [Cover title]
- 701.15 ART
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Issue of Journal of consciousness studies, vol. 6, no. 6-7, June/July 1999.
Edited by Joseph A. Goguen.
Cover title: Art and the brain.
Includes bibliographical references.
Editorial introduction / Joseph A. Goguen -- The science of art / V.S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein -- Commentary on Ramachandran and Hirstein / Colin Martindale, et al -- Art and the brain / Semir Zeki -- The emergence of art and language in the human brain / Erich Harth -- Cave art, autism, and the evolution of the human mind / Nicholas Humphrey -- Commentary on Humphrey / Paul Bahn, et al -- On aesthetic perception / Jason W. Brown -- The dance form of the eyes / Ralph D. Ellis -- Emotion and phylogeny / Michael Cabanac -- Consciousness and emotion (Review of Panksepp) / Douglas F. Watt --James Newman / Bernard Baars -- Ethics are intrinsic to consciousness science / John Pickering.
The 'Journal of Consciousness Studies' series asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art and uncover general laws of aesthetic experience - or is that taking reductionism too far?