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The artful mind : cognitive science and the riddle of human creativity /

All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Turner, Mark, 1954-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2006]
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Art and cognitive evolution / Merlin Donald
  • The aesthetic faculty / Terrence Deacon
  • A cognitive account of aesthetics / Francis Steen
  • Composition and emotion / David Freedberg
  • The art of compression / Mark Turner
  • The cognitive tango / Lawrence M. Zbikowski
  • Dynamics of completion / Shirley Brice Heath
  • The neuroscience of form in art / George Lakoff
  • Form and meaning in art / Per Aage Brandt
  • Slippages of meaning and form / Stephen Murray
  • Making relics work / Robert A. Scott
  • Architectural space as metaphor in the Greek sanctuary / Gloria Ferrari
  • The neurology of ambiguity / Semir Zeki
  • Mastering ambiguity / Marc De Mey.