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    Beauty and the Brain: Neuroaesthetics: Where Consciousness and the Physics of the Universe Meet How do we perceive beauty?
    Beauty and the Brain: Neuroaesthetics: Where Consciousness and the Physics of the Universe Meet How do we perceive beauty?
    Beauty and the Brain: Neuroaesthetics: Where Consciousness and the Physics of the Universe Meet How do we perceive beauty?
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    Beauty and the Brain: Neuroaesthetics: Where Consciousness and the Physics of the Universe Meet How do we perceive beauty?

    By Robert W. Thatcher

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    Beauty and the Brain: The Aesthetic Compass. NeuroAesthetics: Where Consciousness and the Physics of the Universe Meet explores how we as a society perceive beauty. This fascinating text provides an explanation of how aesthetic appreciation occurs by a match of the structure of the brain and external forms. It also describes the brain mechanisms

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQuipper Prints
    Release dateJul 22, 2024
    ISBN9781778391095
    Beauty and the Brain: Neuroaesthetics: Where Consciousness and the Physics of the Universe Meet How do we perceive beauty?
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    Robert W. Thatcher

    Dr. Robert Thatcher received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in biopsychology from the University of Waterloo in 1970. From 1971-72, he was a NIH postdoctoral fellow in neurobiology and neurophysiology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine before joining the faculties of New York Medical College and NYU School of Medicine where he worked with E. Roy John and co-founded the field of QEEG and Neurometrics. From 1979 to 1999, Dr. Thatcher was a professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland before joining the faculty of the National Institutes of Health as the program manager for the 1st 128 channel EEG system where he served on the National Institutes of Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the NIH Human Brain Map Project. From 1993 to 2006 Dr. Thatcher was the director of the NeuroImaging Laboratory at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center, Bay Pines, Florida, and was an adjunct professor in the Departments of Neurology and Radiology at the University of South Florida, He also was the EEG and MRI principal investigator for the Department of Defense and Veterans Administration Head Injury Program (DVHIP). In 1998 he was awarded the "Life Time Achievement Award for Work in the Scientific Specialty of QEEG", by the American Board of Certification of Quantitative Electroencephalography, in 2008 he was the recipient of the AAPB "Hans Berger Award of Merit" and in 2009 he was awarded the ISNR "Life Time Achievement Award for work in EEG and Quantitative EEG" and in 2000 he was awarded the "Pioneer in Medicine Award", Society for Brain Mapping and Therapeutics (SBMT). He is the developer of NeuroGuide software for QEEG and Neurofeedback and is the author of over 200 publications, including eight books. His most recent books are the "Handbook of Quantitative Electroencephalography and EEG Biofeedback" and "Z Score Neurofeedback: Clinical Applications" (co-edited with Dr. Joel Lubar). He is currently the director of the Applied Neuroscience Research Institute and the President & CEO of Applied Neuroscience, Inc.

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