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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W. P. Seeley