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Exploring the Intersection of Neuroscience and Art: A Journey Through Creativity and Emotion

This exploration delves into how neuroscience informs our understanding of art and creativity. It examines emotional reactions to visual and auditory stimuli, the cognitive content involved in artistic expression, and the neurological underpinnings of creativity itself. Through the works of notable figures like Oliver Sacks and Jonah Lehrer, we uncover principles of artistic delight, the role of mirror neurons in empathy, and how artists have historically anticipated scientific discoveries in neuroscience. Join us in understanding the profound relationship between art and the human mind.

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Exploring the Intersection of Neuroscience and Art: A Journey Through Creativity and Emotion

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  1. Sites • http://www.ndgo.net/sfn/nerve/ • Bibliography of papers: 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/autumn-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_Musicophilia

  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-vgg • http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.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=0NzShMiqKgQ&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)

  16. Art and New Biology of MindColumbia 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.php

  18. Magicians show Neuroscientists • http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/psychology-of-magic-3-critical.php • http://www.mindscience.org/magicsymposium/

  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…….

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