With this week’s topic on neuroscience and art, I will be
focusing on “memory”. Both neuroscience and art focuses a lot on the idea of
memory and how individuals not only interpret their memory, but how often are memories
kept.
The
study of neuroscience looks at the psychological and physical development of
the brain itself. Art and neuroscience work hand in hand both on the
psychological aspect spilling over to a physical relationship. Both art and
neuroscience touch upon the idea of an individual’s consciousness, and what it
means for an individual to be conscious or unconscious. For the purpose of this
blog and memory, we will be gearing toward the conscious memory of an
individual when dealing with the relationship between neuroscience and art.
Neuroscience
looks at the anatomical and behavioral nature of an individual’s memory so as
long the memory is kept. Art in the other hand interprets an individual’s
memory and uses that with core objectives for the art piece. In 1959, C.P. snow
indicated that there were now two cultures in the educated world, the
scientific and the artistic which is separated by mutual incomprehension.
Artists not understanding scientists, and vice versa. (Vesna, Week 7)
When it comes to one’s
memory, both art and neuroscience understand that memory is faulty and continuously
changing. Discoveries from both neurologists and artists see that when one’s
perception of a memory first rejects something as ugly, it later perceives as
beautiful, which underlines patterns that have yet to be recognized in both fields.
The combination of artistic theories with hard data from neurologists is needed
to see “memories” in a new light. When one thinks of how a memory came to be,
one can either think of the scientific reasoning with the gustatory and
olfactory nerves or one will lean toward a theoretical understanding and
catalog of perceptions. What really helped during this week’s blog was that
both the field of art and neuroscience are needed to comprehend how every memory
is significant. No matter the experience or feeling caused by it. For a memory
is only as real as the last time you remember it. (Lehrer 20)
Citations
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Vesna,V Desma 9 Video Lecture Week 7
Max, D. T. "Swann's Hypothesis", 2004. Page 1-3
Lehrer, John, "Misreading the Mind", 2007, Page 15-17
Lee, Hesnok, "Brain Damage and Consciousness", 2005 Page 20-21
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