Gitanjali and Neuroscience

gitanjali and neuroscience

A connection between noble prize winning Gitanjali, the celebrated English collection of Tagore's poems, and neu-roscience may at first seem far fetched. For " Gitanjali " literally means " song offerings , " and the poems are suggestive of harmony, beauty and relationality at the least. Tagore, employing 12,091 words and a lexicon with slightly fewer than 2,468 word types, 1 renders in Eng-lis...

gitanjali and neuroscience of music

The poem 31, containing another occurrence of " bound, " sharpens further the notion of boundedness, by distinguishing effort directed to touching the other side of our finiteness from effort to be free of the other side. What makes each effort different is the end to which the will is directed. One is directed to the reaching of the utmost limit or brink of our finiteness, the other to acquiri...

Gitanjali

depreciation. When we were making the cathedrals had we a like reverence for our great men? ‘Every morning at three — I know, for I have seen it’ — one said to me, ‘he sits immovable in contemplation, and for two hours does not awake from his reverie upon the nature of God. His father, the Maha Rishi, would sometimes sit there all through the next day; once, upon a river, he fell into contempla...

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience Congress 2012

Where Neuroscience and Art Embrace The Neuroaesthetics

Neuroscience has recently contributed a lot to the understanding of aesthetic experience features. Science, art and creativity are not really distinctively different entities. The parallelism seen between the properties of art and organizational principals of the brain has been highlighted through neuroaesthetic studies. Aesthetic as a subjective experience has comprehensively been studies thro...