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Klappentext Second of a three-volume series of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies", which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art and uncover general laws of aesthetic experience, or is that taking reductionism too far? Zusammenfassung Second of a three-volume series of the "Journal of Consciousness Studies", which asks if it is possible to take a natural science approach to art and uncover general laws of aesthetic experience, or is that taking reductionism too far? Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Commentaries on the science of art! V.S. Ramachandran! William Hirstein: concerning "The Science of Art"! E.H. Gombrich; response to Gombrich! V.S. Ramachandran; connecting the cerebral cortex with the artist's eyes! mind and culture! Amy Ione; perceptual principles as the basis for genuine judgements of beauty! Jennifer Anne MacMahon; against the reduction of art to galvanic skin response! Donnya Wheelwell. Part II Papers delivered at the Cognitive Science Conference on Perception! Consciousness and Art! Vrije Universiteit Brussel! 17-19 May 1999: two sciences of perception and visual art - editorial introduction to the Brussels papers! Erik Myin; an enquiry into Paul Cezanne - the role of the artist in studies of perception and consciousness! Amy Ione; the cognitive neuroscience of art - a preliminary fMRI observation! Robert Solso; aesthetic ineffability! Rafael De Clercq; "Seeing As" and the double bind of consciousness! Jennifer Church; red and yellow! green and blue! warm and cool - explaining colour appearance! C.L. Hardin. Part III Further refereed papers and reviews: experience and experiment in art! Alva Noe; using science to investigate Jackson Pollack's Drip paintings! Richard P. Taylor! Adam P. Micolich! David Jonas; "Reframing Consciousness"- review article! Glenn English; "Visual Space Perception" - review article! Joseph A. Gaguen.
