190 likes | 286 Vues
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. Neuroesthetics.
E N D
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
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) • http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cms/go/lectures/autumn-art/ • Art and Mind, U.Winchester (2004) • Explanation of creativity • http://www.artandmind.org
Other Sources • Samir Zeki • http://www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk/
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 • http://fora.tv/2007/10/21/Oliver_Sacks_Musicophilia
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 • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn45Z9X-vgg • http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/displayevent.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: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzShMiqKgQ&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 • http://www.imprint.co.uk/rama/art.pdf
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) • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3204/01.html (14min)
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/
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
Magicians show Neuroscientists • http://www.spring.org.uk/2008/08/psychology-of-magic-3-critical.php • http://www.mindscience.org/magicsymposium/
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…….