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Mar. 30, 2012
Art, Mind And Brain Intersect In Kandel's Vienna
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In The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel writes of turn-of-the-century Vienna, where artists mingled with writers, scientists and physicians, and explains how the brain perceives a work of art. |
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Eric Kandel
Author, "The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain" (Random House, 2012)
Winner, 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Senior Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University Professor, Columbia University
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