1 Approaches to the neuropsychology of art
Definitions and purpose of art
Early beginnings of art production by humans
Beauty and its role in art and brain evolution
Art production and brain damage in established artists
Sensations, perception, and neuropsychology
Artistic depictions, brain, and neuropsychology
Color, art, and neuropsychology
Artistic creativity and the brain
Language lateralization and disorders of language (aphasia)
Talent and sensory deficits as clues to neuropsychology of art
Neuroaesthetics: aesthetic reactions to art in the brain
2 The effects of brain damage in established visual artists
Art production following left hemisphere damage
Art production following right hemisphere damage
Slow brain diseases: progressive neurodegeneration
Neurofilament intermediate inclusions disease (NIFID)
Pick’s disease with semantic dementia
Effects of localized brain damage in literary artists
Effects of dementia on a literary artist
Other writers and visual artists
Dance choreography and the brain
3 The eye and brain in artist and viewer: alterations in visionand color perception
Human color vision and the retina
Specialized neural cells in the retina
Visual pathways and the two visual half-fields
Localization of color processing in the brain: effects of brain damage
Health status of the eyes in visual artists
Specific established artists with compromised vision
5 Musical art and brain damage I: established composers
Composers and slow brain disease
Composers and localized damage due to stroke
Additional composers and brain damage
Neurological consequences in established composers
6 Musical art and brain damage II: performing and listening to music
Music localization in the brain
Melodies and the role of musical training
Unilateral brain damage in trained musicians
The neuropsychology of singing
Brain representation of musicians’ hands
Music brain activation in fMRI and PET studies
7 Artists and viewers: components of perception and cognition in visual art
Art, perceptual constancy, and canonical views
Hemispheric categorization and perspective views in pictures
Unilateral damage and pictorial object recognition
Disembedding in pictures and the left hemisphere
Figure–ground and visual search in art works
Global–local, wholes, and details in visual art works
Unconscious influences on perception of art works
Right hemisphere specialization, representation of space, and art history
Convergent and linear perspective in the history of art
8 Neuropsychological considerations of drawing and seeing pictures
Drawings and the parietal lobes
Drawings in neurological patients
Pictorial scenes: simultanagnosia
Scenes, eye movements, and the frontal eye fields
9 Reactions to art works: beauty, pleasure, and emotions
Beauty as an emergent property of art
Neuroaesthetics: brain activity and art aesthetics
Pleasure and the reward system
Experiments on brain activity and aesthetics: some examples
Aesthetics, the oblique effect, and properties of the visual cortex
Left–right perception and aesthetic preference in pictures
Hemispheric aesthetic preference
The special case of faces: biological nature of beauty in faces
Dancing and the brain s reactions to dance
Neuropsychology and emotional reactions to art
10 Biology, human brain evolution, and the early emergence of art
Origins of music in human brain evolution
Symbolic nature of art and language
11 Further considerations: talent, creativity, and imagination
Language and artistic creativity: clues from FTD
Left hemisphere art and creativity: clues from savants with autism
Neurotransmitters and art creativity: clues from Parkinson s disease treatment
12 Conclusion and the future of the neuropsychology of art
Lessons from brain damage in artists
Clinical applications of art: art therapy
Uniqueness of the human brain: clues to art production