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Science 6 August 2004:
Vol. 305. no. 5685, pp. 779 - 780
DOI: 10.1126/science.1098549
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Beauty or Brains?

A review by V. S. Ramachandran

The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain
by Robert L. Solso
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. 296 pp. $45, £29.95. ISBN 0-262-19484-8.

Drawing on cognitive science, anthropology, and art history, the author explores how human consciousness perceives and creates visual art.
The reviewer is at the Center for Brain and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA. E-mail: vramacha{at}ucsd.edu

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