William P. Seeley Department
of Philosophy 73/75
Campus Avenue Bates
Lewiston, ME 04240 wseeley at bates dot edu
Research Interests:
Cognitive Science, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind. My primary
research interests are in aesthetics and the cognitive neuroscience of vision
and concern attempts to understand and explain art and aesthetic experience in
terms of the operation of perceptual systems. Current research includes studies
of a potential role for motor simulation in picture
perception, the relationship between expert knowledge, attention, and
perception in our engagement with artworks, crossmodal perception in the arts, and
the ongoing project of providing a role for cognitive neuroscience in
explanations of art and aesthetic experience. I am also a sculptor and have
collaborated with colleagues in dance, choreography, and computer science to
develop an automatic scoring technique for multi-media performances. My
sculpture has been exhibited in
Links:
Aesthetics
and Cognitive Science
Portrait
of the artist as a test subject...
Last updated December 2011
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