The Artful Mind - Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity

Zusatztext the collection in this book has depth! novelty and a very wide scope. Klappentext All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, 'impressively atful minds'. Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioural singularities - science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art - that seems to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things. This brute fact gives rise to sometantalizing questions: How did the artful mind emerge? What are the basic mental operations that make art possible for us now, and how do they operate? These are the questions that occupy the distinguished contributors to this book, which emerged from a year-long Getty-funded research project hosted bythe Centre for Advanced Study in the Behavioural Sciences at Stanford. Zusammenfassung Cognitively human minds produced a list of behavioral singularities that indicate a discontinuity between them and all other living things. This fact gives rise to questions such as: How did the artful mind emerge? How did the artful mind emerge? This work brings a range of perspectives on the relationship between art, the mind, and the brain.

Product details

• Authors: Turner, Mark Turner
• Assisted by: Mark Turner (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2006
• EAN: 9780195306361
• ISBN: 978-0-19-530636-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 242 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Geschichte, Architektur, Kunsttheorie, Kognitive Psychologie, Kognitionspsychologie, Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie, ART / General, Bau / Baukunst, Architektur - Baukunst, Entwurf / Architektur, Psychologie / Kognitionspsychologie, Kognitivismus, kognitive Theorie, PSYCHOLOGY / Creative Ability