In recent years, there has been a re-discovery of the importance of sensory experience in our daily lives. The senses play a vital role in our health, in our social interactions, and in enjoying food, music and the arts. This book provides an introduction to the study of the senses and the arts. It contains over thirty chapters written by artists/practitioners, including, musicians, visual artists, a "sculptor for the blind", a celebrity chef, a choreographer, designers, and architects. It also includes chapters by leading neuroscientists and psychologists who study the senses, as well as chapters from scholars from the humanities, including, art history, anthropology, and cultural studies. The book provides a unique interdisciplinary overview of the senses, ranging from the neuroscience of sensory processing in the body, to cultural influences on how the senses are used in society, to the role of the senses in the arts. The chapters are written by leading academics, artists and scientists, each of whom bring different perspectives and experiences to the book. Together, these chapters form a timely snapshot of research on the human senses which makes clear a number of common themes that run across the arts, humanities and sciences. The first book of its kind, Art and the Senses will be a valuable tool for anyone interested in how the senses interact with eachother to create meaningful human experience.

Introduction 1. Making sense of art, making art of sense, Francesca Bacci 2. The Science and Art of the Sixth Sense, Nicholas J. Wade 3. The Art of Touch in Early Modern Italy, Geraldine A. Johnson 4. The multisensory perception of touch, Charles Spence 5. Aesthetic Touch, Rosalyn Driscoll 6. Art, aesthetics and the senses, Elio Franzini 7. Sculpture and touch?, Francesca Bacci 8. Touch and the Cinematic Experience, Jennifer M. Barker 9. Hearing Scents, Tasting Sights: Toward a Cross-Cultural Multi-Modal Theory of Aesthetics, David Howes 10. The science of taste and smell, Tim Jacob 11. The Influence of hearing on eating, drinking and perception, Charles Spence, Maya U. Shankar, and Heston Blumenthal 12. Thinking Multisensory Culture, Laura U. Marks 13. Sighting Sound: Listening with Eyes Open, Simon Shaw-Miller 14. The sight and sound of music: audio-visual interactions in science and the arts, David Melcher and Massimiliano Zampini 15. Improvisation in time: The art of jazz- An interview with Greg Osby and Skip Hadden, David Melcher 16. Musical Tension, Carol L. Krumhansl and Fred Lerdahl 17. Cause and affect. A functional perspective on music and emotion, Guy Madison 18. The Mystery of Representation: a Conversation with Vic Muniz, Vic Muniz and David Melcher 19. Pictorial cues in art and in visual perception, David Melcher and Patrick Cavanagh 20. The many dimensions of the third one, Ruggero Pierantoni 21. Film, Narrative, and Cognitive Neuroscience, Jeffrey M. Zacks & Joseph P. Magliano 22. Mirror neurons and art, Vittorio Gallese 23. Pictorial art beyond sight: revealing the mind of a blind painter, Amir Amedi, Lotfi B. Merabet, Noa Tal, Alvaro Pascual-Leone 24. Visual Music in Arts and Minds: Explorations with Synaesthesia, Dr Jamie Ward 25. Visual Music and Musical Paintings: The quest for synaesthesia in the arts, Cretien van Campen 26. Dance, Choreography and the Brain, Ivar Hagendoorn 27. Neuroaesthetic of performing arts, Beatriz Calvo-Merino & Patrick Haggard 28. Multi-Sensory Aesthetics in Product Design, Hendrik N.J. Schifferstein & Paul Hekkert 29. Architecture and the Body, Alberto Perez-Gomez 30. Architecture and the existensial sense, Juhani Pallasmaa 31. Multimodal, interactive media and the illusion of realit, Elena Pasquinelli