{"title":"Neuroaesthetics of Visual Invention: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal in The Beautiful Brain","authors":"M. Poole","doi":"10.1080/15551393.2022.2059761","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Scholars study how the visual and the verbal intersect in scientific texts that incorporate images, but rarely are artistic renderings considered central to scientific epistemologies. This article turns to neuroaesthetics to understand the productive role of art in scientific visual invention. As shown through the drawings of neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the neuroaesthetics of visual invention explain how art may offer scientists the epistemological resources needed to see around hegemonic paradigms in their disciplines.","PeriodicalId":43914,"journal":{"name":"Visual Communication Quarterly","volume":"40 1","pages":"75 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Visual Communication Quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15551393.2022.2059761","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Scholars study how the visual and the verbal intersect in scientific texts that incorporate images, but rarely are artistic renderings considered central to scientific epistemologies. This article turns to neuroaesthetics to understand the productive role of art in scientific visual invention. As shown through the drawings of neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the neuroaesthetics of visual invention explain how art may offer scientists the epistemological resources needed to see around hegemonic paradigms in their disciplines.