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“samuel fleck”

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  • Embodying Art

    How We See, Think, Feel, and Create

    by Chiara Cappelletto ...
    Translated by Samuel Fleck ...
    In recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain imaging techniques. But can brain science really unravel the workings of art? Is the brain in fact the site of aesthetic appreciation?Embodying Art recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Embodying Art

    How We See, Think, Feel, and Create

    by Chiara Cappelletto ...
    Translated by Samuel Fleck ...
    In recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain imaging techniques. But can brain science really unravel the workings of art? Is the brain in fact the site of aesthetic appreciation?Embodying Art recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Age of Insight

    The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

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    A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate to art.At the turn of the century, Vienna was the cultural capital of Europe. Artists and scientists ... Read more

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  • A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

    Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

    by Siri Hustvedt ...
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  • Reductionism in Art and Brain Science

    Bridging the Two Cultures

    by Eric R. Kandel ...
    Are art and science separated by an unbridgeable divide? Can they find common ground? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Sense

    Synesthesia in Art and Science

    by Cretien Van Campen ...
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  • The Architect's Brain

    Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture

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    The Architect's Brain: Neuroscience, Creativity, and Architecture is the first book to consider the relationship between the neurosciences and architecture, offering a compelling and provocative study in the field of architectural theory.Explores various moments of architectural thought over the last 500 years as a cognitive manifestation of philosophical, psychological, and physiological ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of Words

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    Noam Chomsky and linguist Andrea Moro explore language, the history of science, Big Data and AI, and the mysteries of the human brain.Influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. Chomsky discusses today’s ... Read more

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    Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience

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