Anjan Chatterjee
Anjan Chatterjee is a TED speaker who has written 4 quality-verified books, paired here with their talk.
In his recent book, The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art, cognitive neuroscientist Anjan Chatterjee investigates neural responses to beauty, explaining that the faces and places we find aesthetically pleasing may promote evolutionary success. With numerous publications to his name in areas such as attention, spatial cognition and neuroethics, Chatterjee is the former president of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society and the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and he is also a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Neuroethics Society. In 2016, Chatterjee was awarded the Rudolph Arnheim Award for contributions to psychology and the arts. Currently at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, Chatterjee's cutting edge work in neuroaesthetics bridges art and neuroscience in complex and fascinating ways.
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What books has Anjan Chatterjee written?
Anjan Chatterjee has written 4 books in the Books Worth Reading catalogue: "Neuroethics in practice", "Brain, Beauty, and Art", "The Roots Of Cognitive Neuroscience Behavioral Neurology And Neuropsychology", "The Aesthetic Brain". Each is quality-verified and paired with their TED talk.
What does Anjan Chatterjee write about?
Anjan Chatterjee's books on Books Worth Reading cover Science & Technology.
What is Anjan Chatterjee known for?
Anjan Chatterjee brings a refreshingly scientific perspective to questions that philosophers have pondered for centuries: Why do we find certain faces beautiful? What draws us to particular landscapes or artworks? Rather than treating aesthetic appreciation as purely subjective or mysteriously ineff...
What is Anjan Chatterjee's TED talk?
Anjan Chatterjee's TED talk is "How your brain decides what is beautiful" (2017). It is paired with their books on Books Worth Reading.