Week 7 Neurosci + Art

Neuroscience and Art
Although art and neuroscience go together, after this week's material, I found the combination very interesting. With the visualization and creativity seen of all types of art, neuroscience helps your brain see it in many different angles. Neuroscience “the structure or function of the nervous system and brain.” But, I believe neuroscience and art helps us appreciate the development of how our mind controls our emotions.













One of the interesting topics from this week’s lesson was how the brain reacts to certain drugs. In Professor Vesna’s lecture, I found it really intriguing that the drug LSD can design visual illusions, hallucinations of the outside world. This all ties into art and neuroscience because it creates outrageous colors and different shapes of the objects around you. For example, back in the day LSD was a popular drug and a baseball pitcher named Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter on LSD.


Another interesting topic is dreams. Dreams are a rapid eye movement that travels you through time and space. I really liked the quote that Professor Vesna’s said about dreams, “if it’s possible in real like it is possible in your dreams.” The two men that brought unconscious and dreaming to be true is the geologist, Sigmund Freud, and philosopher, Friedrich Schelling.


Dreaming
Overall, I learned that neuroscience and art create many unique illusions of life through drugs, dreaming and many more. This week’s material helped me understand the mind and brain and how it controls everything you see and do.

-Kyle Molnar

Citations

Nichols, David. NeuroSoup. "LSD Neuroscience." NeuroSoup. N.p., 23 Mar. 2014. Web. 22 May 2017.

"Dock Ellis Pitched a No-Hitter on LSD?" Snopes.com. N.p., 23 Oct. 2016. Web. 22 May 2017.

Landau, Elizabeth. "What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience." CNN. Cable News Network, 15 Sept. 2012. Web. 22 May 2017.

Nichols, David. NeuroSoup. "LSD Neuroscience." NeuroSoup. N.p., 23 Mar. 2014. Web. 22 May 2017.

Noë, Alva. “Art and the Limits of Neuroscience.” Opinionator. New York Times, 4 Dec. 2011. Web.

Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. "Neuroscience Part 2" 


Vesna, Victoria. Lecture. "Neuroscience Part 3"

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