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ISBN 13 | 9780199355808 |
ISBN 10 | 0199355800 |
Author | Arthur P Shimamura |
Language | English |
Book Description | What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an "aesthetic" experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye (and brain) of the beholder? Such questions have entertained philosophers for millennia and psychologists for over a |
About the Author | Arthur P. Shimamura is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He investigates human memory and cognition using neuroimaging techniques and by studying individuals with memory disorders. Dr. Shimamura is a founding member of the Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, has been a scientific advisor for the San Francisco Exploratorium Science Museum, and received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship to explore art, aesthetics, and brain. Stephen E. Palmer, is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching focus is on visual perception, a topic closely related to his color photography. He is the author of Vision Science: Photons to Phenomenology, an advanced, interdisciplinary textbook on visual perception. Read more |
Publication Date | 15 October 2013 |
Number of Pages | 424 pages |
Oxford University Press, USA Aesthetic Science: Connecting Minds, Brains, and Experience