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	Inner Vision - Semir Zeki
		Zeki focusses on the visual arts, as the visual brain is an area about which enough is now known to make some interesting observations ("at least at the perceptual level").
		Zeki's focus is on abstract art, as he acknowledges that representational art brings with it additional layers of complexity.
		Neurologist Semir Zeki is a research scientist at the Cognitive Neurology Unit of University College, London.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/zekis/innerv.htm (767 words)

	Running head: IS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For example, according to the neurobiologist Semir Zeki (1994), the artistic genre of Futurism unwittingly discovered the optimal stimulus to influence the firing of neurons in area V5 of the visual cortex, and anticipated science by forty years.
		Semir Zeki is a dominant figure in the field of research of the perception of art.
		Zeki argues that since it is the brain that directs the creation of and appreciation of art, then art is subject to the laws of the brain.
	hubel.sfasu.edu /courseinfo/SL02/kt2kineticart.htm (3687 words)

	Inner Vision: an Exploration of Art and the Brain, by Semir Zeki, Oxford University Press, 1999 (A Book Review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The reason is due to Zeki's belief that "the function of art and the function of the visual brain are one and the same" and that "art is an extension of the functions of the brain" (1).
		Zeki relates one experiment performed where a sponge was presented to a woman who had some damage located in her "association" center located next to V1, but possessed no actual damage in V1 itself.
		For example, Zeki mentions that a person who is prosopagnosic will not appreciate portrait painting because she is incapable of recognizing faces, due to damage in the face recognition area of the brain.
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro03/web2/aalbano.html (1801 words)

	Semir Zeki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Semir Zeki is Professor of Neurobiology at University College London.
		Zeki then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at St.
		Semir Zeki lists his hobbies as visual arts, reading (especially about the darker side of man), music (especially opera) and deep sleep.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Semir_Zeki (672 words)

	Augusta Georgia: Technology:Love is all in the head 02/14/02
		Zeki is part of a growing flock of scientists who are delving into how the brain functions when it comes to positive emotions.
		The study to which Zeki referred involved 11 women and six men, all between 21 and 37 years old, and all of whom avowed they were passionately in love with someone.
		While the practical applications of the experiment are not readily apparent to the layperson, Zeki suggests with tongue somewhat in cheek that it could be used as sort of a love lie detector.
	chronicle.augusta.com /stories/021402/tec_124-5507.shtml (1199 words)

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		Feiceann Zeki an ealaín mar uirlis chun staidéar a dhéanamh ar an inchinn fhísiúil (i.e.
		Paul Klee Ealaín agus Sláinte: Ba mhaith le Zeki ospidéil a fheiceáil ag cur níos mó béime ar an ealaín mar shlí leis an bhfulaingt a mhaolú agus leis an tsláinte a bhisiú.
		Zeki: Is í príomhfheidhm na hinchinne eolas a shealbhú, ach ní mór dúinn a fhiafraí cad chuige a mbailímid an t-eolas seo.
	www.artscouncil.ie /irish/news/docs/ahc_SemirZeki_Irish.doc (1141 words)

	The visual system
		Zeki is one of the primary researchers of the visual cortex of our time.
		As there are approximately as many chapters in Zeki's book as class meetings, it is recommended that you read about 3 chapters a week in it.
		In any event, you will be expected to have read the first 11 chapters of Zeki's book for the first preliminary examination, the first 22 chapters for the second preliminary exam, and the remainder of the book by the final exam.
	www.nbb.cornell.edu /neurobio/bionb326/Page1.html (742 words)

	American Scientist Online - Beauty and the Brain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Zeki suggests that Land's discovery is not a coincidence.
		Zeki found that, like Mondrian, the fauvists had discovered an aesthetic principle with neurological underpinnings: "When you take humans and give them objects which are naturally colored and those that are unnaturally colored, you find that different pathways in the brain are active."
		Zeki believes these artists were intuitively exploring the brain's ability "to recognize an object no matter what angle it's viewed from, or what distance or what lighting conditions."
	www.americanscientist.org /template/AssetDetail/assetid/37223 (619 words)

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		The goal of this session is to: a) introduce Semir Zeki's claim that artists are intuitive neurophysiologists whose works reveal an understanding of the role of the early visual brain in the construction of the structure of appearances, and b) discuss Zeki's thesis within the context of Fry and Ruskin's
		Semir Zeki's claim that Alexander Calder's sculpture consciously exploits the receptive field properties of motion sensitive neurons.
		Calder's use of motion, and b) the claim discussed in Sessions 2 and 3 that the value of the formal structure of an artwork is derived from an interpretation.
	userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /wps/AeCSsyll.htm (1733 words)

	Amazon.de: Vision of the Brain: The Visible World and the Cortex: English Books: Semir Zeki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Zeki's book is the finest technical overview for how the brain "sees" color I have found.
		There is a great deal of historical coverage to refute the idea that the brain has one or two areas where "seeing and understanding" take place.
		Zeki's conclusion is that the brain understands a visual scene by using many interconnected parts of the cortex and no single area is the has the final picture.
	www.amazon.de /Vision-Brain-Semir-Zeki/dp/0632030542 (673 words)

	interdisciplines : Art and Cognition Workshops : Art and Neuroscience
		It fails because he has missed this fundamental point about what art is; it fails because his generalization about what works of art represent is not borne out by the facts; and it fails because even if the generalization were true, the peak shift mechanism would not explain why.
		I shall turn now to Semir Zeki, and in particular to the two key ideas in his book Inner Visions, the book in which he attempts to lay the foundations for ‘an understanding of the biological basis of aesthetic experience’.
		Zeki maintains that ‘aesthetic theories will only become intelligible and profound once based on the workings of the brain.’ So, does neuroscience at last hold out the promise of an intelligible and profound aesthetic theory, or one that will provide ‘the key to understanding what art really is’?
	www.interdisciplines.org /artcognition/papers/15 (5205 words)

	Inner Vision: an Exploration of Art and the Brain - Semir Zeki
		"Semir Zeki, in his rigorous and stimulating, if inevitably somewhat reductive book, thinks that there is more to vision than the passive reception by the brain of a ready made image formed in the eye." -- Keith Miller
		In Inner Vision, one of the founders of visual neuroscience, Semir Zeki, offers the first attempt to apply the science of vision to painting and sculpture, revealing how the conception, execution, and appreciation of the visual arts are all shaped by the anatomy of the brain.
		And Zeki argues that no theory of aesthetics will be complete unless it is substantially based on the activity of the brain.
	www.biblio.com /books/103585641.html (427 words)

	News & Reviews - DrugDigest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		According to the researchers, the response occurred in the caudate nucleus, which is located at the base of the brain.
		About five years ago, Zeki and his colleagues reported a study with young people that identified the caudate nucleus as a brain region that was activated when thoughts of love flooded the mind.
		Zeki's study suggested that love is a much more complicated matter, however.
	www.drugdigest.org /DD/Articles/News/0,10141,524855,00.html (658 words)

	Judging a Color
		Then in 1973, Semir Zeki identified a separate area called V4, which was full of cells that crackled with activity when exposed to different colors.
		In this way, Zeki discovered that some of the cells in area V4 consistently respond to the actual surface color of a Mondrian patch, regardless of the lighting conditions.
		More recently, with the aid of PET scans, Zeki found an area similar in location to the monkeys' V4 that is specifically activated in humans when they look at Mondrian color displays.
	www.hhmi.org /senses/b140.html (940 words)

	A Hot Spot in the Brain's Motion Pathway
		Electrodes very close to these cells picked up their response to different moving lines, and the pattern of activity could be heard as a crackling "pop-pop-pop" when the signals were amplified and fed into a loudspeaker.
		The keystone of the motion pathway was discovered by Semir Zeki of University College, London, in an area of the cortex that lies just beyond the primary and secondary visual areas (V1 and V2), further from the back of the brain—a vast unexplored wilderness vaguely known as the "sensory association cortex."
		But studies in the owl monkey by Allman and Jon Kaas (who is now at Vanderbilt) and in the rhesus monkey by Semir Zeki revealed that the area was not a mishmash at all.
	www.hhmi.org /senses/b220.html (667 words)

	Functional Organization of Macaque V3 for Stereoscopic Depth -- Adams and Zeki 86 (5): 2195 -- Journal of ...
		Zeki S. A direct projection from area V1 to area V3A of rhesus monkey visual cortex.
		Zeki SM, and Sandeman DR. Combined anatomical and electrophysiological studies on the boundary between the second and third visual areas of rhesus monkey cortex.
		Zeki S, and Shipp S. The functional logic of cortical connections.
	jn.physiology.org /cgi/content/full/86/5/2195 (5151 words)

	Amazon.com: Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain: Books: Semir Zeki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		zeki's argument is roughly that the mind is an active creator of visual experience; that we create visual experience using a variety of "modular" cerebral functions (specific neighborhoods of the brain that detect edges, analyze movement, perceive color, recognize faces); and that art works which "appeal" to these modular capabilities provide the foundation for art.
		Semir Zeki, in this book proposes the unconventional idea of looking into the most beautiful products of brain, visual art of instance, to understand the functioning of brain.
		Zeki's writing is extremely lucid, with a good portion of irony, and excellent illustrations increase the pleasure or reading this book.
	www.amazon.com /Inner-Vision-Exploration-Art-Brain/dp/0198505191 (2001 words)

	Naturalizing Aesthetics: the neurophysiology of aesthetic experience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Zeki claims that the function of visual art is synonymous with the function of the visual system: the construction of representations of those constant and enduring properties of scenes and objects that enable us to categorize, and so recognize, them via perception.
		Zeki, Semir (1994) "The neurology of kinetic art," Brain, 117, pp.
		Zeki, Semir (1999) "Art and the Brain," Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 6, June/July, pp.
	userhome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /wps/naturalizing.htm (5964 words)

	Personal record of Konstantinos Moutoussis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For this reason I got a Wellcome Trust studentship and went to the laboratory of Professor Semir Zeki in UCL for a PhD.
		Zeki, S. and Moutoussis, K. Temporal hierarchy of the visual perceptive systems in the Mondrian world.
		Moutoussis, K. and Zeki, S. The relationship between cortical activation and perception investigated with invisible stimuli.
	www.kyb.mpg.de /staff.html?vita=kmoutou (861 words)

	BBC News \| Sci/Tech \| We think therefore I am
		Professor Semir Zeki: "Our hypothesis is that there are many many different consciousnesses in the brain"
		The leader of the research, Professor Semir Zeki, co-Director of the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology in University College, London, says: "I think there are two ways in which people have thought about consciousness.
		The other bit of evidence was produced by Semir Zeki and his colleague Andreas Bartels themselves.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/158615.stm (595 words)

	Inner Vision: An Exploration Of Art And The Brain Summary
		Semir Zeki believes that we can only reach a better understanding of art as we learn more about the operations of the visual brain.
		Zeki demonstrates that the simple act of seeing is a profoundly artistic activity.
		Zeki traces the functional similarities of the artist and the seeing brain.
	www.shvoong.com /f/books/7432-inner-vision-exploration-art-brain (355 words)

	ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Artistic Creativity and the Brain -- Zeki 293 (5527): 51 -- Science
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		The author is in the Department of Cognitive Neurology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
		Zeki, Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain (Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, 1999).
	www.sciencemag.org /cgi/content/full/293/5527/51 (2002 words)

	falling in love
		In an attempt to find out Professor Semir Zeki and his team at University College London recruited seventeen young men and women who had fallen in love in the previous six to twelve months.
		The Putamen and the Caudate Nucleus both lie deep within the brain and are one of the most commonly activated areas with regard to both positive and negative emotions.
		Of equal significance Professor Zeki found out which areas of the brain are INACTIVE when subjects looked at their lovers photo.
	www.transatlanticfilms.com /falling.html (748 words)

	Science & Consciousness Review » Print » Critical remarks about art in the brain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The most prominent champions of neuro-aesthetics are V.S. Ramachandran and Semir Zeki (fig.
		Ramachandran says boldly that he has discovered ‘the key to understanding what art really is’, and that his theory of art can be tested by brain imaging experiments, although he is vague about the experimental design.
		And Zeki, who originally coined the term ‘neuro-aesthetics’, claims to have laid the foundations for understanding ‘the biological basis of aesthetic experience’
	www.sci-con.org /2006/01/critical-remarks-about-art-in-the-brain/print (244 words)

	Art Brain Semir Zeki Book Review Papers -- Inner Vision: an Exploration of Art and the Brain, by Semir Zeki
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