Week 7: Neuroscience and Art.

This week’s topic on art and Neuroscience was quite fascinating. Initially,  I had no idea how the complex study of the brain could be related to any form of art but after going through the lectures and readings I found out that Art and Neuro science have a quite an interesting relationship. Art and Neuroscience has a close relationship as pointed out by Professor Vesna about how the brain processes speech, dreams and imagination. Professor Vesna tries to bring out the fact that the brain has contribute greatly to art since it is the center of all ideas and imagination.

 

Artistic Representation of the Brain

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The brain perceives art and judges whether a certain piece of art is a masterpiece ore a flop. The brain asses, reconstructs and judges work of art. Most neurasthenic research is concerned with how we perceive and analyze basic aesthetic details: how we see color, detect motion, hear sound, recognize faces, feel rhythm, and what the peculiarities of each perceptual system tell us about the way the brain stitches these properties together. Secondly, the brain can be seen through the lens of art. The general architecture of the brain and the internal landscape of subjective experience come out as great pieces of art. Different modes and styles used by artists may actually represent the different neural landscape the different pieces of art came from.

    

Most Neurasthenic Research is concerned with Aesthetic Perception

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An interesting relationship between art and neuroscience can be observed in magicians. By being able to trick our brain, magicians are able to make us see things that cannot happen in the normal world. Magicians create emotions by curing some part of our brains thus making it possible for their audience to have a different perspective of their presentation. Frazzeto and Anker in their article titled “Neuroculture” state that ideas, concepts and images in neuroscience widely circulate in the society in form of work of art, literature, films and mass media thus showing how art and Neuroscience have a close relation

A Magician at Work

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Works Cited

Hutton, Noah. Art and Neuroscience: State of union. 2012. Web. 16 Nov 2013 <http://www.creativitypost.com/arts/art_and_neuroscience_a_state_of_the_union>

Jackson, Candace. How Art Affects the Brain. The Wall Street Journal.N.p., 22 2010. Web. 16 Nov  2013. <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703699204575017050699693576.ht>.

Lewis, Tamzin. Researching how art effects our brains The Journal. N.p., 08 2011. Web. 16 Nov 2013. <http://www.journallive.co.uk/culture-newcastle/arts-news/2011/08/08/researching-how-art-effects-our-brains-61634-29187640/2/>.

Vesna, Victoria. “Conscious / Memory (Part 1).” Lecture. 16 Nov 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DLVQIwOn7o8

Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. “Conscious / Memory (Part 2).” 16 Nov 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xlg5wXHWZNI>
Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. “Conscious / Memory (Part 3).” 16 Nov 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E5EX75xoBJ0>

 Frazzeto, Giovani and Anker, Suzzanne. Neuroculuture. 2009. Perspectives, Vol 10. Macmillan publishers.