The senses play a vital role in our health, our social interactions, and in enjoying food, music and the arts. The book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the senses, ranging from the neuroscience of sensory processing in the body, to the role of the senses in the arts.
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ISBN:0199674973
ISBN:9780199674978
ISBN:0199230609
ISBN:9780199230600
Physical Description:xxv, 642 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm. print
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
1. Making sense of art, making art of sense / Francesca Bacci in conversation with Achille Bonito Oliva -- 2. The science and art of the sixth sense / Nicholas J. Wade -- 3. The art of touch in early modern Italy / Geraldine A. Johnson -- 4. The multisensory perception of touch / Charles Spence -- 5. Aesthetic touch / Rosalyn Driscoll -- 6. Rendering the sensory world semantic / Elio Franzini -- 7. Sculpture and touch / Francesca Bacci -- 8. Touch and the cinematic experience / Jennifer M. Barker -- 9. Hearing scents, tasting sights: toward a cross-cultural multimodal theory of aesthetics / David Howes -- 10. The science of taste and smell / Tim Jacob -- 11. 'Sound bites': auditory contributions to the perception and consumption of food and drink / Heston Blumenthal -- 12. Thinking multisensory culture / Laura U. Marks -- 13. Sighting sound: listening with eyes open / Simon Shaw-Miller -- 14. The sight and sound of music: audiovisual interactions in science and the arts / David Melcher and Massimiliano Zampini -- 15. Improvisation in time: the art of jazz / David Melcher interviews Greg Osby and Skip Hadden -- 16. Musical tension / Carol L. Krumhansl and Fred Lerdahl -- 17. Cause and affect: a functional perspective on music and emotion / Guy Madison -- 18. The mystery of representation: a conversation with Vik Muniz / Vik Muniz and David Melcher -- 19. Pictorial cues in art and in visual perception / David Melcher and Patrick Cavanagh -- 20. The many dimensions of the third one / Ruggero Pierantoni -- 21. Film, narrative, and cognitive neuroscience / Jeffrey M. Zacks and Joseph P. Magliano -- 22. Mirror neurons and art / Vittorio Gallese -- 23. Pictorial art beyond sight: revealing the mind of a blind painter / Amir Amedi, Lotfi B. Merabet, Noa Tal, and Alvaro Pascual-Leone -- 24. Visual music in arts and minds: explorations with synaesthesia / Jamie Ward -- 25. Visual music and musical paintings: the quest for synaesthesia in the arts / Cretien van Campen -- 26. Dance, choreography, and the brain / Ivar Hagendoorn -- 27. Neuroaesthetics of performing arts / Beatriz Calvo-Merino and Patrick Haggard -- 28. Multisensory aesthetics in product design / Hendrik N.J. Schifferstein and Paul Hekkert -- 29. Architecture and the body / Alberto Perez-Gomez -- 30. Architecture and the existential sense: space, body, and the senses / Juhani Pallasmaa -- 31. Multimodal, interactive media and the illusion of reality / Elena Pasquinelli.
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