Week 7 Neuroscience and Art

This week's topic is about the relationship of Neuroscience and Art, which I never think of their innate connection before. Professor introduced two outstanding psychologists named Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, who have been dedicated into psychology field throughout their lives to helps us understand how brain perceives art and how art can affect human being's brain.

http://www.crystalinks.com/jung.html
What interests me more is how Jung emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, symbols, religions, and mythology.

http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/inception-2010/images/14355477/title/inception-wallpaper
This reminds me of a well-known movie called "Inception", which the main character was trapped into several dreams due to a "dream stealer". And he had to separate the truth and the dreams. If our dreams really show how our brain is thinking and working(subconsciousness), then we should catch our dreams to understand more our brain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hP9D6kZseM

Inception Official Trailer 

Check this out! It is really amazing how a thief steal people's subconsciousness to implant other people's idea into it.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/art-and-the-limits-of-neuroscience/?_r=0

 So why our brain can make sense of lines, colors, and even art? I found an explanation on CNN News. Our brain can understand the arts based on what we have perceived in our daily life, such as people, animals, plants, food or places. And several elements of art that we take for granted trick out brains into interpreting meaning from the arbitrary. Perhaps we can never know how our consciousness and unconsciousness work together, what we perceive is not what other person perceive, and what we think of beauty may not fit other person's beauty standard. 

Citations:

"Carl Jung's Biography." Web. Nov 17. 2013. <http://www.crystalinks.com/jung.html>

Elizabeth Landau. "What the brain draws from: Art and Neuroscience." Sep 15. 2012. Web. Nov 17. 2013. <http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/15/health/art-brain-mind/>

Alva Noe. " Arts and the limit of Neuroscience" Dec 4. 2011. Web. Nov 17. 2013. <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/04/art-and-the-limits-of-neuroscience/?_r=0>

Boxofficesmashers. "Inception-Official Trailer" Jan 12. 2010. Web. Nov 17. 2013. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hP9D6kZseM>

Vesna Victoria. "Neuroscience+Art Lecture " May 17. 2012. Web. Nov 17. 2013. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFv4owX4MZo>