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  • The Hidden Sense

    Synesthesia in Art and Science

    Serie series Leonardo
    The uncommon sensory perceptions of synesthesia explored through accounts of synesthetes' experiences, the latest scientific research, and suggestions of synesthesia in visual art, music, and literature.What is does it mean to hear music in colors, to taste voices, to see each letter of the alphabet as a different color? These uncommon sensory experiences are examples of synesthesia, when two or ... Altre info

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  • A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

    Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

    di Siri Hustvedt ...
    A compelling, radical, “richly explored” (The New York Times Book Review) and “insightful” (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prizewinning novelist Siri Hustvedt, acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.In this expansive volume, Hustvedt presents a trilogy of intellectually daring works that reveal the striking breadth ... Altre info

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  • Living, Thinking, Looking

    Essays

    di Siri Hustvedt ...
    "One of our finest novelists has long been a brilliant explorer of brain and mind" as seen in this collection of essays (Oliver Sacks, New York Times– bestselling author of Awakenings ) .The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting ( Mysteries of t... ... Altre info

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  • A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

    A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world.Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adaptive and complicated than they're commonly given credit for, and he is led to some basic questions: ... Altre info

    14,97 €

  • The Hidden Order Of Art

    A revealing study into the relationship between psychology and the arts.Anton Ehrenzweig's tour de force describes nothing less than the psychology of artistic creativity. Focusing on the visual arts and music, he shows that, in addition to conscious, intellectual critical powers, both the child and the creative artist rely on an unconscious, intuitive critical process to give shape to their view ... Altre info

    3,99 €

  • On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind

    How Music Plays the Mind

    What is it about the music you love that makes you want to hear it again? Why do we crave a "hook" that returns, again and again, within the same piece? And how does a song end up getting stuck in your head? Whether it's a motif repeated throughout a composition, a sample looped under an electronic dance beat, a passage replayed incessantly by a musician in a practice room-or an "earworm" ... Altre info

    49,70 €

  • The Music between Us

    Is Music a Universal Language?

    "Higgins' love of music and cultural variety is evident throughout. She writes in a relaxed, accessible, sophisticated style…Highly recommended."— ChoiceFrom our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In this book, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining ... Altre info

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  • The Frog Who Croaked Blue

    Synesthesia and the Mixing of the Senses

    di Jamie Ward ...
    As little Edgar Curtis lay on his porch, he remarked to his mother how the noise of the rifle range was black, the chirp of the cricket was red, and the croak of the frog was bluish. Edgar, like many other people, has synesthesia - a fascinating condition in which music can have color, words can have taste, and time and numbers float through space.Everyone will be closely acquainted with at least ... Altre info

    29,86 €

  • The Actor, Image, and Action

    Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience

    di Rhonda Blair ...
    The Actor, Image and Action is a 'new generation' approach to the craft of acting; the first full-length study of actor training using the insights of cognitive neuroscience. In a brilliant reassessment of both the practice and theory of acting, Rhonda Blair examines the physiological relationship between bodily action and emotional experience. In doing so she provides the latest step in ... Altre info

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  • Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy

    Toward a Therapeutic Aesthetics

    Challenging traditional therapeutic approaches to the arts in which art is often secondary to a psychological model, Principles and Practice of Expressive Arts Therapy provides a coherent theoretical framework for an expressive arts therapy practice that places the process of art-making and the art work itself at the center.This book lays the philosophical foundation for a fresh interpretation of ... Altre info

    30,46 €

  • Aesthetics on the Edge

    Where Philosophy Meets the Human Sciences

    Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work. Recent science reveals that we have poor intuitive access to artistic and aesthetic phenomena. Dominic McIver Lopes argues for a new approach that mandates closer integration, from the start, between ... Altre info

    60,73 €

  • Freud: Bullet Guide Ebook Epub

    Bullet Guide

    Open this book and you willGrasp psychoanalysisMaster Freudian theoriesExplore key conceptsUnderstand his influence ... Altre info

    3,99 €