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ToolsOnians, John (2018) Art, the visual imagination and neuroscience: The Chauvet Cave, Mona Lisa's smile and Michelangelo's terribilitá. Cortex, 105. pp. 182-188. ISSN 0010-9452
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Abstract
This paper considers several types of imagination relevant to art historical enquiry. These are exemplified in artistic expressions ranging from palaeolithic paintings in the Chauvet Cave, to drawings, sculptures and buildings designed by Michelangelo and drawings and paintings by Leonardo, and are related to recent neuroscientific discoveries. From this it emerges that important types of imagination cannot be understood without an appreciation of the neural processes that underlie them and especially without an acknowledgement of the importance of neurochemistry.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | imagination,art,memory,admiration,fear,amygdala,neural plasticity,neurochemistry |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies (former - to 2024) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for European and American Art History Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Art History and World Art Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2017 05:06 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2024 00:14 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/65291 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.009 |
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