Ideasthesia: How do ideas feel? - Danko Nikolić
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The traditional model of our mental function is that first our senses provide data to our brain, which then translates those senses into the appropriate mental phenomena: light into visual images, air vibrations into auditory experiences, etc. But what if that process is actually occurring simultaneously? Danko Nikolić describes the theory of ideasthesia.
In your own appreciation of art, can you find examples in which the emotional experiences that the artwork evoked were combined with your understanding of the meaning of the work?
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- Educator Danko Nikolić
- Director Paula Spagnoletti, Celine Keller
- Script Editor Alex Gendler
- Narrator Addison Anderson
