Science Shows What Art Is For

The Nobel Prize-winning neuro-psychiatrist Eric Kandel — who presided over Charlie Rose’s series on the human brain — explains what happens when we look at art. Kandel says that our scientific understanding has been made possible during the past several decades by the advances in the biology of perception, emotion, empathy and memory that began in the 1960s and continue to this day. [photo: Thomas Ricker]

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