Neuroscience and Art Thomas Schlich

Neuroscience and Art Thomas SchlichThis book seeks to investigate the processes of artistic performance in the brain through modern neuroscience and advanced neuroimaging techniques. Presented as a series of essays, the text first explains the science behind creativity, the scientific basis of techniques, and the neural pathways involved in both creation and appreciation of visual art works. The remaining essays explore the impact on art forms and creativity of neurological diseases

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even while the level of everyday life experience is never abandoned

he considers works from 1928 to 1995

Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac provides invaluable insight to into the social history of France

and Michaela Di Cesare

and Filipina migrants brought to Israel for specified periods of employment

Her distinction between the ontological and rhetorical dimensions of the self creates a rich middle ground in which questions of essence and identity bear upon existence

government-run Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib prisons

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he suffers from misunderstanding and loneliness

Through the ethnography and history of fish production

Focusing on multigenerational Puerto Rican women and girls