Neuro-Esthetics and Mapology

When you are looking at paintings (like Barnett Newman's "Cathedra"), you may be shifting (see also Shiftology and Mapology!) your gaze across the painting from the left to the right in order to build up visual (etc.) maps (see animation below: top row).

If you are an art historian or neurobiologist in addition, you may also be ABLE to build up other maps in addition (art historical maps: see second row; neurobiological maps and fMRI-images: see third row).

And if you are a physicist, mathematician, or computational neurobiologist, you may further be ABLE to build up mathematical or physical maps in addition (see fourth row).

All in all, the MORE maps you POSSESS, the (perhaps) RICHer your POTENTIAL landscape (see also Potential landscapes), and hence the perhaps better your Self-control while looking at (and not attacking) Barnett Newman's painting: