Painting an experience? How aesthetics might assist a neuroscience of sensory experience

IULM University, Milan, hosted a European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on "Neuroesthetics: When art and the brain collide" on the 24th and 25th of September, 2009. In my invited lecture, I departed significantly from my advertised title, instead using my time to introduce the audience to five strands in my research related to the intersection of neuroscience/cognitive science and art/creativity:

• Embodied creativity
  
• Enactive models of experience
  
• Synthetic phenomenology
  
• Interactive empiricism
  
• Art works/installations
  

Media:

• PodSlides: iPod-ready video (.mp4; 27 MB; 33 min 55 sec)
  
• Audio (.mp3; 15.6 MB; 33 min 51 sec)
  
• PowerPoint file (.pptx; 1.5 MB)
  

Further links:

• Workshop description
  
• Official workshop report
  
• "Beauty and the Brain: The Puzzle": An account of the workshop by author Tim Parks in the New York Review of Books blog