The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain (pdf) by Robert L. Solso

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Contents

Art and the Rise of Consciousness

• Changes in Science, Changes in Art
• Traditional Ways ofUnderstanding Art: Psychophysical
• Dualism
• Art and Mind: A Unitary View
• The Evolution of Art and Consciousness
• The Rise of Consciousness as a Scientific Topic
• AWAREness: The Five Facets of Consciousness
• From Nucleotides to Newton

2 Art and Evolution

• The “New and Improved” Brain and Technology, Art, Language, and Culture
• Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, and Dogs That Can’t Hunt
• The Cognitive “Big Bang”
• The Cognitive Blueprint
• Environmental and Dietary Changes
• Brains and Adaptation
• The Evolution of the Brain

3 Art and Vision

• Visual AWAREness
• Seeing with Brain and Eye: The Dynamic Properties of Vision
• The Eye
• Beautiful Colors
• From the Eye to the Brain
• The Visual System and the Perception of Art

4 Art and the Brain

• The Evolution of the Consciously AWARE Brain
• The Cognitive Big Bang and the Emergence of Art
• What Brains Do
• “Raphael’s Brain”

5 About Face

• Faces Are Special in Art
• Domain Specificity and Faces
• What the Portrait Artist’s Brain “Sees”
• The Face as a Reflection of the “Inner Person”

6 Illusions: Sensory, Cognitive, and Artistic

• Sensory Illusions: Truth or Fiction?
• Cognitive Illusions: Twisting Truth
• Visual Illusions
• Artistic Illusions
• First-Order Isomorphism and Proto-Isomorphism

7 Perspective: The Art of Illusion

• Seeing a 3D World with a 2D Eye
• Principles of Depth Perception: Where Is It?
• Recumbent Figures: Why They Are So Hard to Draw

8 Art and Schemata

• Schemata
• Visual Dissonance
• Canonic Representations
• Representational Art—Abstract Art
• A Cognitive Neuroscience Theory of Aesthetics

Robert L. Solso: The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain

Language: English
Format: PDF online
Pages: 29
Size: 6.97 Mb