The Expressive Therapies Continuum (ETC) provides a theoretical model for art-based assessments and applications of media in art therapy. The three levels of the ETC (Kinesthetic/ Sensory, Perceptual/Affective, and Cognitive/Symbolic) appear to reflect different functions and structures in the brain that process visual and affective information. Assessment of the formal elements in an artwork c...

The development of visual art preferences is an understudied area in aesthetics research. Yet, it is necessary to understand how our aesthetic appreciation emerges and what factors influence this process during development. A good framework to study early art appreciation with infants and young children requires an examination of the interactions among different components of aesthetic experien...

The present study aimed at determining whether short-term exposure to art in shared common areas in congregate housing units could affect health and health determinants among the residents. Ten residents (mean age 80.4 years) at one block were exposed to visual art environmental enrichment in common areas over a period of three months. Thirteen persons (mean age 86.6 years) living in another bl...

A patient with right-side-predominant Parkinson's disease presented visual artwork which improved in resemblance to the model which he was copying with increasing doses of levodopa. I propose that increased dopaminergic replacement resulted in improved attention to detail, mediated by circuitry in the left hemisphere.

This chapter presents an introduction to the different artistic design domains that make use of interactive evolutionary design approaches, the techniques they use, and many of the challenges arising. After a brief introduction to concepts and terminology common to most artificial genetic design, there is a survey of artistic evolutionary systems and related research for evolving images and for...

This article discusses the perceptual phenomenon of visual indeterminacy in an art historical and scientific context and considers its role in certain heightened states of awareness. Further philosophical implications of the phenomenon are discussed, specifically the suggestion that visual indeterminacy may point to an inherent contradiction in the relationship between mind and world. This disc...

iconology as an approach- method in art history studies which has had a long history and in iran has always been the center of attention and many books and articles have been compiled about this method. the studies in which this method is used, the studied works has had historical record. in spite of using this method in modern art, it has never been used in interpretation of an abstract works ...

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping is now widely adopted by many applications, researchers have produced very dense literature on this topic. With the advent of smart devices, embedding cameras, inertial measurement units, visual SLAM (vSLAM), visual-inertial (viSLAM) are enabling novel general public applications. In context, paper conducts a review popular approaches with focus vSLAM/viSLA...