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 creativityEnactive models of experienceSynthetic phenomenologyInteractive empiricismArt works/installationsMedia: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 descriptionOfficial 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