Conference paper
NEUROSCIENCE AND VISUAL ART; MOVING THROUGH EMPATHY TO THE INEFFABLE
Mark Agius
; Clare College Cambridge, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Abstract
In this article we wish to discuss recent work on neurobiology and visual arts, with impact on human pleasure, wellbeing and
improved mental health. We wish to discuss briefly our model of the Human Person and apply it to Visual Art, and we wish to discuss our view of how empathy has been suggested as an important factor in how visual art can impact the human person, with its links with neuroscience and anthropology, and thus how Visual Art can put Human Beings in touch with their deepest feelings and even with the ineffable.
Keywords
art; neuroscience; Thomistic model of the person; empathy; mirror neurons; embodied cognition
Hrčak ID:
262991
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Publication date:
21.11.2018.
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