The neural imagination : aesthetic and neuroscientific approaches to the arts / Irving Massey.

  • Massey, Irving.
Date:
[2009], ©2009
  • Books

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Aesthetic and neuroscientific approaches to the arts

Description

"Art and technology have been converging rapidly in the past few years; an important example of this convergence is the alliance of neuroscience with aesthetics, which has produced the new field of neuroaesthetics. Irving Massey examines this alliance, in large part to allay the fears of artists and audiences alike that brain science may "explain away" the arts."--BOOK JACKET.

Publication/Creation

Austin : University of Texas Press, [2009], ©2009.

Physical description

xvi, 224 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.

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Edition

1st ed.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [190]-212) and index.

Contents

The imagination, neural -- Background, purposes, and limitations of the inquiry -- Neuroscience and the visual arts -- At the limits of language -- Music and language in dream -- The imagination, plain -- The three fields -- Ideas and values.

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    History of Medicine
    CV /MAS
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  • 9780292752795
  • 0292752792