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A 23-year-old woman who has been in a vegetative state since suffering devastating brain damage in a traffic accident has stunned doctors by performing mental tasks for them. Brain scans revealed that the woman, who has shown no outward signs of awareness since the accident in July last year, could understand people talking to her and was able to imagine playing tennis or walking around her home when asked to by doctors.
neuroarthistory -- Prof John Onians uses the results from new scanning techniques to answer questions such as:
* What happens in the brain of the modern artist as he or she works?
* What happened in the brain of an artistic genius like Leonardo Da Vinci?
* How do the brains of amateur and professional artists differ?
* Why do artists in certain times or places have certain visual tastes?
It seemed to me that this book set out to do two main things. One was to demonstrate that so many of our notions of what goes under the lab...