References

Basic Books and Papers (see also ELBS 2005):

ALPERS, Svetlana (1983): The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century. Chicago.
ARNHEIM, Rudolf (1971): Entropy and Art. An Essay on Disorder and Order. Berkeley.
ARNHEIM, Rudolf (1974 [1954]): Art and Visual Perception. A Psychology of the Creative Eye. Berkeley.
BERLYNE, Daniel E. (1971): Aesthetics and Psychobiology. New York.
BLANKE, Olaf et al. (2005): Linking Out-of-Body Experience and Self Processing to Mental Own-Body Imagery at the Temporoparietal Junction. The Journal of Neuroscience 25,3 : 550-7.
BRASS, Marcel / HEYES, Cecilia (2005): Imitation: is cognitive neuroscience solving the correspondence problem? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 9 : 489-95.
CERNUSCHI, Claude (1997): "Not an Illustration but the Equivalent". A Cognitive Approach to Abstract Expressionism. London.
CHANGEUX. Jean-Pierre (1994): Art and Neuroscience. Leonardo 27,3 : 189-201.
CHENEY, Dorothy L. / SEYFARTH, Robert M. (2007): Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. Chicago.
DAMASIO, Antonio (1999): The Feeling of What Happens. Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness. London.
DELGADO, José M.R. (1969): Physical Control of the Mind. Toward a Psychocivilized Society. New York.
EIBL-EIBESFELDT, Irenäus (1988): The Biological Foundation of Aesthetics. In: RENTSCHLER et al. 1988a : 29-68. [Cf. also Eibl-Eibesfeldt, Irenäus / Sütterlin, Christa (2007): Weltsprache Kunst. Zur Natur- und Kunstgeschichte bildlicher Kommunikation. Wien].
ELBS, Oliver (2005): Neuro-Esthetics: Mapological Foundations and Applications (Map 2003). München.
ELBS, Oliver (2005/06): Neuro-Esthetics. (Seminar-Script S1-S7, download at: Seminar-Script 2005/06 )
ELBS, Oliver (2006): MAP 2020: Ein kleiner Leitfaden für das 21. Jahrhundert. München.
ELBS, Oliver (2008): The Attraction of Neuro-Art-History: Getting at Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman (The Dallas Lecture). (Online at: [[1]]).
ELBS, Oliver (2010): Mapping Shifts (Droodles): Solving a map-maker's first problem. (The Regensburg Lecture). (Online at: [[2]])
EPLEY, Nicholas et al. (2008): Creating Social Connection Through Inferential Reproduction. Loneliness and Perceived Agency in Gadgets, Gods, and Greyhounds. Psychological Science : 19,2 : 114-20.
FRISTON, Karl J. (2010): The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience 11, 127-138.
GIACOMETTI, Augusto (1933): Die Farbe und ich. In: Stutzer, Beat (2003, ed.): Augusto Giacometti. Wege zur Abstraktion. Chur : 185-196.
GOMBRICH, Ernst (1977 [5th ed., 1960]): Art and Illusion. A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. London.
GRODAL, Torben K. (1997): Moving Pictures. A New Theory of Film Genres, Feelings, and Cognition. Oxford.
HAYNES, John-Dylan / REES, Geraint (2006): Decoding mental states from brain activity in humans. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7 (July) : 523-34.
HEERWAGEN, Judith H. / ORIANS, Gordon H. (1993): Humans, Habitats, and Aesthetics. In: Kellert, Stephen R. / Wilson, Edward O. (eds): The biophilia hypothesis. Washington : 138-72.
HERRMANN, Esther et al. (2007): Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis. Science 317 : 1360-6. [3].
HOHLER, Franz (2010): Das Kurze. Das Einfache. Das Kindliche. Zürich. [One of the best books in German written for children -- but which most grown-ups will probably never be able to understand in its full depth...].
HUMPHREY, Nicholas (1998): Cave Art, Autism, and the Evolution of the Human Mind. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8,2 : 165-191.
HUMPHREY, Nicholas (2010): Beauty’s child: sexual selection, nature worship, and the love of god. Online at: [4]
JOURDAIN, Robert (1997, dt. 1998): Music, the Brain, and Ecstasy. How Music Captures Our Imagination. N.Y.
KEILLER, Scott W. (2010): Male Narcissism and Attitudes Toward Heterosexual Women and Men, Lesbian Women, and Gay Men: Hostility toward Heterosexual Women Most of All. Sex Roles : [5].
KELLER, Heidi (2007): Die soziokulturelle Konstruktion impliziten Wissens in der Kindheit. In: Trommsdorff, G. / Kornadt, H.-J. (eds, 2007): Theorien und Methoden der kulturvergleichenden Psychologie. (Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, C VII 1). Göttingen : 703-34.
KEYSERS, Christian / GAZZOLA, Valeria (2010): Social Neuroscience: Mirror Neurons Recorded in Humans. Current Biology 20,8 : R353-R354.
KIERKEGAARD, Sören (1954 [1846]): Reflexionen über Christentum und Naturwissenschaft. In: (idem): Eine literarische Anzeige. Düsseldorf : 123-140. (Probably one of the most intelligent essays of the 19th c., especially with regard to the then upcoming neurosciences)
KOSELLECK, Reinhart (1971): Wozu noch Historie? Historische Zeitschrift 212 : 1-18.
KRAUS, Karl (1937): Die Sprache. Wien : Die Fackel. (Probably the most intelligent German book of the whole 20th c.)
KURTH, Ernst (1931): Musikpsychologie. Berlin.
LATOUR, Bruno (2002): What is Iconoclash? Or is there a world beyond the image wars? In: Latour, Bruno / Weibel, Peter (eds): iconoclash. Beyond the Image Wars in Science, Religion, and Art. (Exhibition Catalogue ZKM Karlsruhe 2002). Cambridge (MA) : 14-38.
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LIVINGSTONE, Margaret (2002): Vision and Art. The Biology of Seeing. New York.
LLINAS, Rodolfo R. (2001): I of the Vortex. From Neurons to Self. Cambridge (MA).
LORENZ, Konrad / POPPER, Karl (1983): Nichts ist schon dagewesen. (Online at [6] ).
MACH, Ernst (1900 [2nd ed., 1886): Die Analyse der Empfindungen und das Verhältniss des Physischen zum Psychischen. Jena.
MAINZER, Klaus (2004 [4th ed.]): Thinking in Complexity. The Computational Dynamics of Matter, Mind, and Mankind. Berlin.
MALACH, Rafael et al. (1995): Object-related activity revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging in human occipital cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 92 : 8135-39.
MAYR, Ernst (1982): The Growth of Biological Thought. Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance. Cambridge (MA).
MONDRIAN, Piet (1951, 3rd ed. [1942]): pure plastic art. In: idem: plastic art and pure plastic art 1937 and other essays, 1941-1943. New York : 30-2. (The documents of modern art).
MÜNSTERBERG, Hugo (1916, repr. 1970): The Photoplay. A Psychological Study. New York.
NICHOLAS OF CUSA (1973 [1460]): Trialogus de possest. Hamburg. (Probably the most intelligent book of the whole 15th c.)
NICOLELIS, Miguel A. L. / CHAPIN, John K. (2002): Controlling Robots with the Mind. Scientific American October : 25-31.
ONIANS, John (2008): Neuroarthistory: From Aristotle and Pliny to Baxandall and Zeki. New Haven.
PANOFSKY, Erwin (1964 [1925]): Über das Verhältnis der Kunstgeschichte zur Kunsttheorie. Ein Beitrag zur Erörterung über die Möglichkeit ‘kunstwissenschaftlicher Grundbegriffe‘. In: (idem): Aufsätze zu Grundfragen der Kunstwissenschaft. (Edited by Hariolf Oberer and Egon Verheyen). Berlin : 49-75.
PANOFKSY, Erwin (1957 [1939]): Iconography and Iconology: An Introduction to the Study of Renaissance Art. In: (idem): Meaning in the Visual Arts. Papers in and on Art History. Garden City (NY) : 26-54.
PASLACK, Rainer (1991): Urgeschichte der Selbstorganisation : zur Archäologie eines wissenschaftlichen Paradigmas. Braunschweig.
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POUCET, Bruno / SAVE, Etienne (2005): Attractors in Memory. Science 308 : 799-800.
PURVES, Dale (2003): Why We See What We Do. An Empirical Theory of Vision. Sunderland.
RAMACHANDRAN, Vilayanur S. / HIRSTEIN, William (1999): The Science of Art. A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies 6,6-7 : 15-51.
RAMACHANDRAN, Vilayanur S. / HUBBARD, Edward M. (2003): Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes. Scientific American May : 43-49.
RENTSCHLER, Ingo / HERZBERGER, Barbara / EPSTEIN, David (eds, 1988): Beauty and the Brain. Biological Aspects of Aesthetics. Basel.
ROLLS, Edmund T. / DECO, Gustavo (2002): Computational Neuroscience of Vision. Oxford.
SCHÜTZ, Alfred (1971): Das Problem der sozialen Wirklichkeit. In: (idem): Gesammelte Aufsätze. Vol. 1. Den Haag.
SEDLMAYR, Hans (1959): Pieter Bruegel: Der Sturz der Blinden. In: (idem): Epochen und Werke. Gesammelte Schriften zur Kunstgeschichte. Vol. 1. Wien : 319-57.
SERRES, Michel (1994): Atlas. Paris.
SOLSO, Robert L. (1994): Cognition and the Visual Arts. Cambridge (MA).
SOLSO, Robert L. (2000): The Cognitive Neuroscience of Art. A Preliminary fMRI Observation. Journal of Consciousness Studies 7,8-9 : 75-85.
SPITZER, Manfred (2002): Musik im Kopf. Hören, Musizieren, Verstehen und Erleben im neuronalen Netzwerk. Stuttgart.
STAPERT, John C. / CLORE, Gerald L. (1969): Attraction and Disagreement-Produced Arousal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 13,1 : 64-9.
TAINE, Hippolyte (1870): De l’intelligence. Paris.
TAN, Ed S. (1996): Emotion and the Structure of Narrative Film. Film as an Emotion Machine. Mahwah (NJ).
THELEN, Esther / SMITH, Linda B. (1994): A Dynamic Systems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action. Cambridge (MA).
TURNBULL, David (1989, repr. with corr. 1993): Maps Are Territories. Science Is An Atlas. (A portfolio of exhibits). Geelong.
UEXKÜLL, Jakob von (1980 [1920]): Der Funktionskreis. In: (idem): Kompositionslehre der Natur. (Edited by Thure von Uexküll). Frankfurt am Main : 226-90.
VICO, Giambattista (1979 [1710]): Liber metaphysicus. (Ed. by S. Otto and H. Viechtbauer). Munich. (Probably the most intelligent book of the whole 18th c.).
WHITFIELD, John (2007): Survival of the Likeliest? PLoS Biology 5(5): e142. [7].
WILLATS, John (2005): Making Sense of Children’s Drawings. Mahwah (N.J.).
WÖLFFLIN, Heinrich (1984 [17th ed., 1915]): Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe. Das Problem der Stilentwicklung in der neueren Kunst. Basel.
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WORG, Roman (1993): Deterministisches Chaos. Wege in die nichtlineare Dynamik. Mannheim.
ZATORRE, Robert J. / PERETZ, Isabelle (eds, 2001): The Biological Foundations of Music. New York. (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; 930).
ZEKI, Semir (2003 [2nd ed., 1999]): Inner Vision. An Exploration of Art and the Brain. Oxford.