Event overview
In this edition of the Whitehead Lecture Series, Dr Rebecca Chamberlain (Goldsmiths Psychology) explores how the skills of artistic production and appreciation emerge.
Among the many skills that humans evolved to design their environments, art-making is among the oldest, far predating evidence of written communication. However, we are still in the early stages of understanding how and why individuals create and respond so powerfully to works of art.
In this talk Dr Rebecca Chamberlain will explore the psychological mechanisms by which expertise in artistic production and appreciation emerge, evaluating the role of practice and talent in the development of these abilities, drawing on my own and others’ research.
She will also look at the interplay between artistic production and appreciation in the relatively new field of embodied aesthetics. Finally, she will address the putative therapeutic value of artistic production and appreciation, through its potential to promote mindfulness and emotional expression.
Biography: Dr Rebecca Chamberlain completed her PhD in psychology at UCL in 2013, followed by a post-doctoral research fellowship in Professor Johan Wagemans’ Gestalt Perception group at KU Leuven in Belgium. In 2017 she joined Goldsmiths as a lecturer in the Department of Psychology. Her research aims to understand artistic expertise and aesthetic perception from a psychological and a neuroscientific point of view.
About the Whitehead Lecture Series
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 1 Feb 2017 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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