Neurovědy a renesanční teorie umění

Abstract

The article is about interactions between two disciplines: the history of art and neurology. Scientific researches in the field of neurology discover new perspectives in the humanitarian disciplines, including the art history. The article draws attention to two current themes: to the research of human empathy and mechanisms of bottom-up and topdown processing in visual perception. Those two parts the author of the article connects with the theory of art in Italy in the era of Renaissance. An unexpected comparison of discoveries in the field of neurology with the theory of the 16th century demonstrates, how useful can be the cooperation of the two disciplines. In the end of the article are proposed questions and tasks, with which the art history can deal in the light of scientific discoveries.

Keywords

• bottom-up processing
• top-down-processing
• visual perception
• renaissance
• neurology