CHAPTER 1: Approaches to the neuropsychology of art
Introduction
Definitions and purpose of art
Multiple components of art and brain damage in established artists
Visual arts, perception, and neuropsychology
Color, art, and neuropsychology
Music and the brain
Art, creativity, and the brain
Beginnings of human art
Beauty in art and brain evolution
Language lateralization and disorders of language (aphasia)
The arts, language, and hemispheric specialization
Talent and sensory deficits as clues to the neuropsychology of art
Summary
Further readings
CHAPTER 2: The effects of brain damage in established visual artists
Introduction
I. Art production following left hemisphere damage
II. Art production following right hemisphere damage
III. Slow brain diseases
Parkinson's Disease
Dementia
Corticobasal degeneration
Alzheimer's Disease
Progressive aphasia in fronto-temporal dementia
Dementia with Lewy bodies
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 3: The eye and brain in artist and viewer: Alterations in vision and color perception
Introduction
I. Localization of color processing: Effects of damage
Color in the brain
Achromatopsia and hemiachromatopsia: Hue discrimination impairment
Acquired central dyschromatopsia
The case of an art professor
An artist with color agnosia
II. Health status of the eyes in visual artists
Color deficiency and color blindness
Specialized neural cells in the retina
Visual pathways and the two visual half fields
Brightness in paintings
Color and light in the art of film
What compromises colors in the eye of artist and viewer
Cataracts and consequences to clarity and colors
Dopamine and colors
III. Specific established artists with compromised vision
Camille Pissarro
Claude Monet
Paul Cezanne
Edgar Degas
Wassily Kandinsky
Vincent van Gogh's colors
Francisco Goya's illness
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 4: Special visual artists: The effects of autism and slow brain atrophy on art production
Introduction
I. Unusual artists
Savant visual artists
Comparison to musical savants
Fronto-temporal dementia (FTD)
II. Slow brain alterations
Slow brain changes and effects on art: Serial lesion effects
Functional reorganization
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 5: Musical art and brain damage: I. Established composers
Introduction
I. Composers and slow brain disease
The case of Maurice Ravel
Localization and further discussion of Ravel
The case of Hugo Wolf
French composer M. M.
II. Composers and localized damage due to stroke
Vissarion G. Shebalin
Jean Langlais
Benjamin Britten
American composer B. L.
III. The case of George Gershwin
IV. Effects of syphilis on brains of composers
Robert Schumann
Bedrich Smetana
Franz Schubert
Ludwig van Beethoven
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 6: Musical art and brain damage. II. Performing and listening to music
Introduction
Art
of music and language
Amusia
and the art of music
Music
localization in the brain
Melodies
and the role of musical training
Unilateral
brain damage in trained musicians
The
neuropsychology of singing
Brain
representation of musicians' hands
Music
brain activation in fMRI and PET studies
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 7: Artists and
viewers: Components of perception and cognition in visual art
Introduction
Art,
perceptual constancy, and canonical views
Hemispheric
categorization and perspective views in pictures
Unilateral
damage and pictorial object recognition
Disembedding
in pictures and the left hemisphere
Figure-ground
visual search in art works
Global-local,
wholes, and details in art works
Unconscious
influences on perception of art works
Right
hemisphere specialization and representation of space
Depth
perception in pictures
Convergent
and linear perspective in the history of art
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 8: Neuropsychological considerations of
drawing and seeing pictures
Introduction
Handedness in artists
Drawings and the parietal lobes
Drawings in neurological patients
Hemi-neglect and attention
Pictorial scenes: Simultanagnosia
Scenes, eye movements, and the frontal eye fields
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 9: Beauty,
pleasure, and emotions: Reactions to art works
Introduction
I. Beauty and aesthetics
Alterations in aesthetic preference following brain damage
Brain activity and aesthetics
Aesthetics, the oblique effects, and properties of the visual cortex
Left-right perception and aesthetic preference in pictures
Hemispheric aesthetic preference
Beauty as an emergent property of art
Biological nature of beauty in faces
Painted portraiture
Facial asymmetry and art
Beauty in colors: The film
II. Neuropsychology and emotional reactions to art
Emotions of the creating artist
Pleasure and the reward system
Emotional reactions in the brain to films
Hemispheric laterality of emotions
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 10: Human brain evolution, biology and the early emergence of art
Introduction
I. Biology and display of art
Biology: Roots of exhibiting talent and skills
Biology: Pleasure of art
II. Visual arts
Initial appearance of many artistic productions
Art as an extension of clever survival strategies
Fortuitous juxtaposition of early conditions
Safety and comfortable time for visual art creations
III. Origins of music in human brain evolution
Music as a communicative tool
Mimicry of animal sounds, deception, and language
Innate reactions to music
IV. Symbolic nature of art and language
Language and art
Evolution of language development: Some issues and speculations
Written pictures
Specific archaeological finds
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 11: Further considerations in the neuropsychology of art
Introduction
I. Talent and creativity
Creativity in art
Imagery
Neuropsychology of creativity
Language and creativity: Clues from frontotemporal dementia
Left hemisphere creativity: Clues from autistic savants
Neurotransmitters: Clues from Parkinson's Disease treatment
II. Complexities of visual art
Lessons from brain damage in artists
Art in human existence
Summary
Further Readings
CHAPTER 12: Conclusion and the future of the neuropsychology of art
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