Neuroscience: Picturing the soul
Abstract
Generating beautiful images has never been the exclusive preserve of art: scientific representations of the brain have aesthetic value too, as portrayed in an exhibition at the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden, co-curated with the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic. Images of the Mind presents more than 200 artistic and scientific works depicting the mind from medieval times to the present day. It also illustrates how the evolving imagery of artists has always been firmly rooted in...