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100 1 $aZeki, Semir.
245 10 $aSplendors and miseries of the brain :$blove, creativity, and the quest for human happiness /$cSemir Zeki.
260 $aChichester, UK ;$aMalden, MA :$bWiley-Blackwell,$c2009.
300 $aviii, 234 p., [2] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and indexes.
505 0 $aAbstraction -- The brain and its concepts -- Inherited brain concepts -- The distributed knowledge-acquiring system of the brain -- The acquired synthetic brain concepts -- The synthetic brain concept and the platonic ideal -- Creativity and the source of perfection in the brain -- Ambiguity in the brain and in art -- Processing and perceptual sites in the brain -- From unambiguous to ambiguous knowledge -- Higher levels of ambiguity -- Michelangelo and the non-finito -- Paul Cezanne and the unfinished -- Unfinished art in literature -- Conte by Arthur Rimbaud -- The brain's concepts of love -- The neural correlates of love -- Brain concepts of unity and annihilation in love -- Sacred and profane -- The metamorphosis of the brain concept of love in Dante -- Wagner and Tristan und Isolde -- Thomas Mann and Death in Venice -- A neurobiological analysis of Freud's civilization and its discontents.
650 0 $aBrain$xPhysiology.
650 0 $aConcept$xPhysiological aspects.
650 0 $aCreative ability$xPhysiological aspects.
650 0 $aLove$xPhysiological aspects.
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