Neuropsychology of Art by Zaidel, Dahlia W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication CONTENTS List of figures Series preface Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition 1 Approaches to the neuropsychology of art

Introduction Definitions and purpose of art Why do humans create 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 Music and dance and the brain Artistic creativity and the brain Language and art 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 Summary Further readings

2 The effects of brain damage in established visual artists

Introduction 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 Summary Further readings

3 The eye and brain in artist and viewer: alterations in visionand color perception

Introduction 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 Summary Further readings

Introduction Untypical artists Savant visual artists Slow brain atrophy and art Summary Further readings

5 Musical art and brain damage I: established composers

Introduction Composers and slow brain disease Composers and localized damage due to stroke Additional composers and brain damage Neurological consequences in established composers Summary Further readings

6 Musical art and brain damage II: performing and listening to music

Introduction Art of music and language Amusia and the art of 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 Summary Further readings

7 Artists and viewers: components of perception and cognition in visual art

Introduction 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 Depth perception in pictures Convergent and linear perspective in the history of art Summary Further readings

8 Neuropsychological considerations of drawing and seeing pictures

Introduction Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) Art professor and Sabadel Handedness in artists Drawings and the parietal lobes Drawings in neurological patients Hemi-neglect and attention Pictorial scenes: simultanagnosia Scenes, eye movements, and the frontal eye fields Summary Further readings

9 Reactions to art works: beauty, pleasure, and emotions

Introduction Beauty as an emergent property of art Beauty and aesthetics 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 Painted portraiture Beauty in colors: the film Dancing and the brain s reactions to dance Neuropsychology and emotional reactions to art Summary Further readings

10 Biology, human brain evolution, and the early emergence of art

Introduction Biology and display of art Visual arts Origins of music in human brain evolution Dance Symbolic nature of art and language Summary Further readings

11 Further considerations: talent, creativity, and imagination

Introduction Talent in art Creativity in art Neuropsychology of creativity Art creativity and dementia 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 Imagery and imagination Complexities of visual art Summary Further readings

12 Conclusion and the future of the neuropsychology of art

Lessons from brain damage in artists Art in human existence Clinical applications of art: art therapy Uniqueness of the human brain: clues to art production Convergence of evidence The future of the neuropsychology of art

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