What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts...
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Did art and religion co-evolve in parallel as archeology and anthropology suggest, and if so, what would be the significance? What do art and religion have in common that...
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How does human thinking and feeling affect human culture? How does collective society emerge from individual mentalities?
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How can the three pounds of wet tissue inside our skulls create and appreciate the grandeur and psychic power of music? Musical feel, beauty and emotion seem so radically...
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What can music reveal about how the mind works? How does cognitive science study the human capacity for, and experience of, music? How to tease apart the elements of music:...
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Can art impact our personal sense of self? Can engaging with a painting one loves (or hates) change one’s perception of one’s own inner self? In reverse, can one use art...
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Can understanding how the mind appreciates art give insight into how the mind works generally and broadly? What is it about art that it can penetrate mental barriers and...
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Since ancient times, certain spaces have been deemed sacred, serving as holy places that religious believers believe provide clearer access to transcendent realms. What is it...
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How can music, the auditory arts, take us beyond ourselves, generating a sense of awe and grandeur, opening up new ways of knowing and revealing new kinds of understanding?...
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How can art, the visual arts, take us beyond ourselves, generating a sense of awe and grandeur, opening up new ways of knowing and revealing new kinds of understanding? What...
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