The Third International Conference on Neuroesthetics
Saturday, January 10, 2004

Emotions in Art and the Brain

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Berkeley Art Museum
Gund Auditorium

2625 Durant Avenue
(between College and Bowditch)
Berkeley, California 94720

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8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:05 Elwin Marg, University of California, Berkeley and Minerva Foundation
9:05 – 9:10 Semir Zeki, Institute of Neuroesthetics
9:10 – 9:55 The Brain, Emotion and Aesthetic Judgements
  Ray Dolan, Institute of Neurology, London
9:55 – 10:05 Discussion
   
10:05 – 10:20 Recess – Coffee
   
10:20 – 11:05 Steps Toward an Evolutionary Psychology of Emotion
  Dan Fessler, University of California, Los Angeles
11:05 – 11:15 Discussion
11:15 – 11:45 Embodied Aesthetics: A Neuropsychological Perspective
  Arthur Shimamura, University of California, Berkeley
11:45 – 12:15 Emotion, Transformation through Art and Neurological Coincidence
  Dennis Dake and Ann Marie Barry, Iowa State University
   
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch
   
1:15 – 2:05 Art, Emotion and the Brain: The Historical Dimension
  David Freedberg, Columbia University
2:05 – 2:15 Discussion
2:15 – 2:45 On the Neurobiology of Creativity and Emotion
  Rosa-Aurora Chαvez, Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatrνa Ramσn de la Fuente, Mιxico City
2:45 – 3:15 The Techniques of Emotion
  Anna Weinstein, Boston University
   
3:15 – 3:30 Recess – Coffee
   
3:30 – 4:00 Patterns that Connect - the Self-Organizing Landscape and the Brain
  Robert Steinberg, formerly at John Glenn Research Center (NASA), Cleveland, Ohio
4:00 – 4:30 Naturalizing Aesthetics: the Neurophysiology of Esthetic Experience
  William Seeley, Yale University
4:30 – 5:00 The Neural Correlates of Love and Beauty
  Semir Zeki, University College, London
5:00 – 5:45 General discussion

 

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