ATongue_DESMA9 Neuroscience+Art



Artist Suzanne Anker ad neuroscientist Giovanni Frazzetto have initiated the Neuroculture Project which aims to examine how modern brain science has penetrated popular culture. Although they are specifically interested in studying the interaction of art and neuroscience, Frazzetto and Anker’s claim is that the assimilation of the neurosciences into our everyday lives is having an impact on human social values and commercial practices. 


Cognitive neuroscience investigations have begun to reveal the distributed neural networks which interact to implement moral judgment and social decision-making, including systems for reward learning, valuation, mental state understanding, and salience processing. Incorporating neuroscientific methods with psychology and clinical neuroscience has the potential to improve predictions of recidivism, future dangerousness, and responsivity to particular forms of rehabilitation. “The scientific exploration of mind provides society at large with an unprecedented mirror of itself, well beyond the circle of the philosopher, the psychologist, the therapist, or any individual seeking insight into his own experience” (Rosch,6). There is a constant interest in the media about cognitive science and its associated technology and that artificial intelligence has deeply penetrated the minds of the young through computer games and science fiction. Artists like Lidija Kononenko allow viewers to examine the detains of the peripheral nerve system. The art was praised for “the interactivity and playful combination of imagery of a human peripheral nerve with a text-based story that unfolds at various scales and highlights the role of the nervous system in the human condition.” Thus, linked neurosciences to our everyday lives in the human condition.





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