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Neuroarthistory : Discovering a Greater Appreciation of Art Through Science
No full textiv, 90 p.The author reviews several themes of neuroarthistory from theories of aesthetic interest, light perception and the eye, and the visual brain, considering the critical work of John Onians, Margaret Livingston, Semir Zeki, Tim Adams, Eric Fernie, Dominic Lopes, and V. S. Ramachandran
Relações entre o processo artístico e o funcionamento do cérebro
Get PDFO ensaio tenta apontar possíveis relações entre o funcionamento do cérebro visual e o processo criativo pessoal a partir dos estudos do cientista Semir Zeki sobre neuroestética e os conceitos neurocientíficos como constância, abstração e idealização
Neuroestetica. Dialoghi fra arte e cervello
No full textLa neuroestetica indaga le basi neurobiologiche del fenomeno dell'arte, dal lato sia della creazione sia della fruizione. Nasce a metà degli anni '90 grazie agli studi di Semir Zeki sulla relazione fra corteccia visiva e arte e da allora numerosi sono stati gli ambiti di ricerca avviati. Questa tesi si propone di farne una rassegna il più possibile completa che, partendo dagli studi di psicologia della percezione avviati dalla Gestalt, arriva alla neuroestetica propriamente intesa di Semir Zeki, Vilayanur S. Ramachandran e Jean-Pierre Changeux; alla scoperta dei neuroni specchio e alle loro conseguenze sull'empatia estetica e sulla relazione attore-spettatore nella performance teatrale; infine, alla neurostoria dell'arte di John Onians. L'obiettivo è quello di mostrare la possibilità effettiva di un dialogo fra due culture apparentemente distanti come quella artistica e quella neuroscientifica
Neuroestetica e fenomenologia della percezione pittorica e musicale
No full textIntroduzione La formulazione dell’espressione neuroestetica è consensualmente attribuita a Semir Zeki, per il quale essa designa il progetto di elaborare una teoria neurobiologica dell’esperienza estetica. Come si realizza però concretamente questo progetto? Esistono problemi di metodo specifici per la neuroestetica? Nell’ambito del medesimo progetto, è possibile individuare approcci diversi allo studio dell’esperienza estetica? Inoltre, quali aspetti dell’esperienza estetica sono di solito o..
Beauty in Architecture: No, not a luxury; only a necessity
Get PDFCan beauty in architecture nourish the human emotional brain? Semir Zeki, Professor of Neuroaesthetics at University College London argues that it does. He goes further in suggesting it should be a quality in all buildings and that humanity has the ability to recognise this beauty across all cultural divides. The appreciation of beauty, no matter where found, is hardwired into our brains
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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