Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures - Hardcover

Kandel, Eric

 
9780231179621: Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0231179626 ISBN 13: 9780231179621
Verlag: Columbia Univers. Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Can science and art find common ground? Are scientific and artistic quests mutually exclusive? In this new book, neuroscientist Eric Kandel, whose interests span the fields of science and art, explores how reductionism - the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller, more tractable ideas - has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths. Their common use of reductionist strategies demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. Kandel draws on his Nobel Prize-winning work studying the neurobiological underpinnings of learning and memory in the humble sea slug, whose simple brain helps illuminate the complex workings of higher animal minds. He extends these findings to the complexities of human perception, which uses bottom-up sensory and top-down cognitive functions to perceive the world and to appreciate and understand works of art.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eric R. Kandel is University Professor and Kavli Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is director of the Kavli Institute for Brain Science and codirector of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia. In 2000, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His recent books include The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present (2012) and In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind (2007), as well as Principles of Neural Science (2012), of which he is lead coauthor.

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Verlag
Columbia Univers. Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231179626
ISBN 13 
9780231179621
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
240
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