Selective Attention: Neuroscience and the Art Museum
March 22, 2007
Barbara Stafford professor, art history, U Chicago

Barbara Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of the University of Chicago's Department of Art History, discusses the relationship between art museums and neuroscience.

Barbara Stafford's recent essays focus on how developments in brain science are informing our assumptions about perception, emotion, sensation, and mental imagery. She is currently writing a cognitive history of images. Stafford is the writer of many books, including Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine (1991), Artful Science: Enlightenment, Entertainment, and the Eclipse of Visual Education (1994), and Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting (1999).

Art & Architecture | Health & Science
aesthetics | Art & Architecture | brain | mental imagery | neuroscience | Science | Biology | Psychology
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High Museum of Art
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Image of Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine
Author: Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher: The MIT Press (1993)
Binding: Paperback, 612 pages
Image of Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education
Author: Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher: The MIT Press (1996)
Binding: Paperback, 384 pages
Image of Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting
Author: Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher: The MIT Press (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
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