Perceptual, Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Mathematical Symmetries
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2017) | Viewed by 293
Special Issue Editor
Interests: human symmetry perception; mathematical systems analysis; complexity theory; texture analysis; self-referential systems; symmetry in art; consciousness
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Beyond its mathematical appeal and centrality as an organizing principle in theoretical physics, symmetry is a primary property of human perceptual processing across the visual, auditory and somatic senses. The eye, the ear and the sensory feel delight in symmetries of all varieties, from rhythmic repetition to reflection to rotation to self-scaling. These diverse forms of symmetry go far beyond the biological constraints of the bilateral symmetry of the brain and bodily structures and the circular symmetry of the retina and visual structures, to the multiple cyclic symmetries of design and ornamentation. In art, on the other hand, symmetry may be as much implicit as explicit. Symmetry is often explicit in the backdrop as the architecture, the furnishings, the wallpaper, the rhythmic structure of the musical beat, while the central theme of the action goes out of its way to avoid symmetry or to react against it in an implicit form. This Special Issue invites contributions addressing the multiple roles of symmetries in the perceptual, cognitive or emotional processing of humans or other animals, and their analysis in art of all forms.
Dr. Christopher W. Tyler
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- symmetries
- asymmetry
- perceptual processing
- brain
- art
- music
- sculpture
- architecture
- design
- ornamentation
