Connecting Blazons and Neurons

摘要

The modern dream of bringing science to art takes many forms. One nurtures the hope of finally confirming the intuitions of our artists by anchoring perception in molecule and synapse. Another seeks to reveal the "secrets" of art to be simple tricks manipulating human perceptual systems. But perhaps the most powerful is the urge to analyze (and celebrate, in the great humanist tradition) the way that art brings cognition into the person-making place of culture.