The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience: New Discoveries and Changing Landscapes

 This volume on neuroscience, neurology, and the fine arts brings several disciplines together. It presents current thoughts and modern examples about how science, medicine and the arts have interacted in the past and are still converging. This volume specifically explores the history and modern perspective on neurology and neuroscience.

Part 1: Brain Damage, Creativity, and the Fine Arts

1. Split-Brain, the Right Hemisphere, and Art: Fact and Fiction

Dahlia W. Zaidel

2. Visual Artistic Creativity and the Brain

Kenneth M. Heilman and Lealani Mae Acosta

3. Artistic Creativity, Artistic Production and Aging

Anna Mazzucchi, Elena Sinforiani and François Boller

4. Focal Cerebral Lesions and Painting Abilities

Anna Mazzucchi, Elena Sinforiani and François Boller

5. Artistic Creativity and Dementia

Zachary A. Miller and Bruce L. Miller

Part 2: Further Insights on the Brain and the Fine Arts

6. Deceiving the Brain: Pictures and Visual Perception

Nicholas J. Wade

7. The Experience of Art: Insights from Neuroimaging

Marcos Nadal

8. On the Electrophysiology of Aesthetic Processing

Thomas Jacobsen

9. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Exploring Neuroscience, Nature and Nurture in the Novel and the Films

Sheryl R. Ginn

10. Perception of Emotion in Abstract Artworks: A Multidisciplinary Approach

David Melcher and Francesca Bacci

11. Art and Brain: The Relationship of Biology and Evolution to Art Dahlia W. Zaidel