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Art and Neuroscience
Apr 23 2009, 12:24 PM EDT | Post edited: Apr 23 2009, 12:24 PM EDT
Art and Neuroscience
John Hyman

Quote: If these claims are true, we are at the dawn of a new age in the study of art. Up to now, most of the people studying art have been historians, some of whom can read Latin, but hardly any of whom have mastered even the rudiments of brain science. And aesthetics has been in the hands of philosophers, who still disagree among themselves about ideas that were stated in the fourth century BC. Neuro-aesthetics is different. As Ramachandran says:

"These ideas have the advantage that, unlike the vague notions of philosophers and art historians, they can be tested experimentally." End of quote.

http://www.interdisciplines.org/artcognition/papers/15

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