Book Contents
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Chapter1: Approaches to the Neuropsychology of Art.
Chapter 2: The Effects of Brain Damage in Established Visual Artists.
Chapter 3: The Eye and Brain in Artist and Viewer: Alterations in Vision and Color Perception.
Chapter 4: Special Visual Artists: The Effects of Autism and Slow Brain Atrophy.
Chapter 5: Musical Art and Brain Damage: I. Established Composers.
Chapter 6: Musical Art and Brain Damage: II. Performing and Listening to Music.
Chapter 7: Artists and Viewers: Components of Perception and Cognition in Visual Art.
Chapter 8: Neuropsychological Considerations of Drawing and Seeing Pictures.
Chapter 9: Beauty, Pleasure, and Emotions: Reactions to Art Works.
Chapter 10: Human Brain Evolution, Biology and the Early Emergence of Art.
Chapter 11: Further Considerations in the Neuropsychology of Art.
Chapter 12: Conclusion and the Future of the Neuropsychology of Art. |
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The significance of art in human
existence has long been a source of puzzlement, fascination, and mystery. In this book, Dahlia W. Zaidel explores the brain regions and neuronal systems that support artistic creativity, talent, and appreciation.
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This book draws on interdisciplinary principles from the biology of art, brain evolution, anthropology, and the cinema through to the question of beauty, language, perception and hemispheric specialization. It will be of interest to advanced students in neuropsychology, neuroscience and
neurology, to clinicians and all researchers, artists, and scholars interested in the workings of the human brain.
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