Dear FIS colleagues, Be it *Semir Zeki* who coined the term neuroaesthetics, *Ramachandran*(for his ten principles of art) or *Mihály Csíkszentmihályi* for his application of flow(as pointed out by Robin) in unravelling the mental state of operation of being immersed, have all added new dimensions to understand psychology behind the visual perception and its interpretation called ''art''. On the understanding and applicability of flow to art, it will be worth to understand the general mechanism of brain response to sensory input. The perception in human brain is shaped by the multitudes of individual experiences in relationships with other humans, the natural world and cultural input. The brain is now demonstrated to be remarkably plastic, changing at microscopic levels rapidly and with great sensitivity to experience of the outside world. The people with artistic proclivity like the musicians also experience being immersed in what he or she is doing by a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and success in the process of the activity.
Take an example. Jack disliked a painting when he was attending school downtown. With time, he came across many facts that somehow made him to appreciate the features of the painting with the discussions he had with other admirers of the work. Now Jack is a great admirer of the painting, himself. So, you can see that the flow of disliking the painting gave way to flow of strong liking for the same with experience and time, though significant here is the change in the state of flow(from disliking to strong admiration). Neuroscientists have been studying the neural correlates of this change. It may be interesting to see if deterministic chaos does play an important role in the information flow and perception with time and how brain reacts to that. Kind Regards Sonu
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