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How can art, the visual arts—from painting to sculptures to film—take us beyond ourselves, generating a sense of awe and grandeur, opening up new ways of knowing and revealing new kinds of understanding? Why do only certain pieces of art, whether complex classical paintings or simple line drawings, trigger personal transcendence while most others do not? What is it about art that triggers the transcendent?
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Anjan Chatterjee is a professor of neurology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. His research focuses on spatial cognition and its relationship to language.
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