Launching of the Human Brain Project (HBP)

Launching of The Brain Initiative

Markus Gabriel coined the term "Neucentrism" at his book "I am not a Brain"

Why People Choose Coke Over Pepsi: How Our Brains Create Our Consumer Experience, by Mlodinow

Self-Knowledge and Self-Identity, by Sidney Shoemaker

Quote by James D. Watson

Completion of the Human Genome Project

Thomas Insel appointed head of the new life sciences unit of Alphabet

Harvard Medical School landmark report

The Second Treatise of Government, by John Locke

Passions of the Soul, by René Descartes

De Anima, by Aristotle

Essay Concerning Human Understanding, by John Locke

NeuroX

Invention of fMRI

Discovery of Mirror Neurons

Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, by Alva Nöe

The Encultured Brain, by Greg Downey and Daniel H. Lende

First appearance of the term cultural neuroscience

Social Neuroscience, by John T. Cacioppo and Gary Berntson

Foundation of the Society for Social Neuroscience

Appearance of the term neuroanthropology in the Dictionary of Anthropology

Neuroanthropology vs. Cultural Neuroscience

The Pharma-Psych Nexus

Synthetization of Chlorpromazine

The Epigenetics Revolution, by Nessa Carey

The search for treatment-specific biomarkers

Neurodiversity

Mental Patients' Union

The Rise of the Neuronovel, by Marco Roth

Enduring Love, by Ian McEwan

Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Robert L. Stevenson

Dracula, by Bram Stoker

Thinks... by David Lodge

Galatea 2.2, by Richard Powers

Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

Matters of the Heart: History, Medicine, and Emotion, by Fay Bound Alberti

Total Recall

Blade Runner

Johnny Mnemonic

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject, by Fernando Vidal and Francisco Ortega

Being Brains: Making The Cerebral Subject
To Begin With
Chap. 1: Genealogy of the Cerebral Subject
Chap. 2: Disciplines of the Neuro
Chap. 2: Neuroaesthetics
Chap. 2: The Neurodisciplines of Culture
Chap. 3: Cerebralizing Distress
Chap. 4: Brains on Paper
Chap. 4: Brains on Screen
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Neural Correlates of Beauty, by Hideaki Kawabata and Semir Zeki

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In 2004, Zeki and Hideaki Kawabata, a professor at Keio University in Japan, published in the Journal of Neurophysiology an article entitled “Neural Correlates of Beauty.” This brings us right to the heart of the neuroaesthetic enterprise: The topic is beauty, the methodology is brain imaging, and the main product is a correlation.


The purpose of the study was to find brain areas that would respond specifically to one category of painting (for example, the portrait) over others as well as brain areas that would be “consistently active” across subjects when they perceive a painting they judge beautiful or ugly. This strategy, the authors explained, allowed them to circumvent the question of how what an individual regards as ugly or beautiful is conditioned by culture, education, and inclination (Kawabata and Zeki 2004, 1699). As it turns out, since these factors cannot be switched off, the authors do not really circumvent them but just ignore them—and with them, most of what makes something be “art” or “aesthetic,” “beautiful” or “ugly.”

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All events in the topic Chap. 2: Neuroaesthetics:


01/01/1997 (Circa)01/01/1999 (Circa)Coining of the word NeuroaestheticsCoining of the word Neuroaesthetics
01/01/2010 (Circa)Neuroaesthetics as a field of studyNeuroaesthetics as a field of study
01/01/2013 (Circa)Foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical AestheticsFoundation of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
01/01/2008 (Circa)Coining of the term NeuroarthistoryCoining of the term Neuroarthistory
01/01/2004 (Circa)Neural Correlates of Beauty, by Hideaki Kawabata and Semir ZekiNeural Correlates of Beauty, by Hideaki Kawabata and Semir Zeki
01/01/2000 (Circa)fMRI Experiment on Art Creation, by Robert SolsofMRI Experiment on Art Creation, by Robert Solso
01/01/1964 (Circa)Andy Warhol's Brillo BoxAndy Warhol's Brillo Box
01/01/1989 (Circa)The Power of Images, by David FreedbergThe Power of Images, by David Freedberg
01/01/2007 (Circa)01/01/2009 (Circa)David Freedberg's articles on neuroaesthetics
01/01/1992 (Circa)Discovery of Mirror NeuronsDiscovery of Mirror Neurons
01/01/2015 (Circa)Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, by Alva NöeOut of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, by Alva Nöe
01/01/1993 (Circa)Andy Warhol: Brillo Box, by Arthur DantoAndy Warhol: Brillo Box, by Arthur Danto