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“... of what happens inside our brains when we look at pictures, neurologists using fMRI – notably, Semir Zeki – have pointed art studies in a significant new direction. John Onians and Barbara Maria Stafford, both art historians, certainly think so, though Neuroarthistory and Echo Objects argue the case in quite different ways. What might the far view ...”

“... particular, where he has been somewhat upstaged by the superb new book by the visual physiologist Semir Zeki, A Vision of the Brain.* In fact, it is only really in the last fifty pages or so that a specifically Crickian view of consciousness begins to emerge and the contributions of Christof Koch become apparent. The problem that any neural theory of ...”

“... the difficulty of applying scientific research to art, even when fine minds attempt it.’ Semir Zeki’s An Exploration of Art and the Brain does give the prosecutor a moment’s pause. He is impressed by Zeki’s point that the visual system of the brain is millions of years older than its linguistic ...”