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neurobiological investigations threaten the contextual approaches of the humanities and social sciences. The overall aim of the programs at the
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which become so polemical in the field. As
Freedberg and Gallese explain, as the eye sees a work of art, the brain mimics gestures mentally, before it cognitively recognizes the conceptual context or effect of the action itâs mimicking. Freedberg and Galleseâs theory of aesthetic empathetic responses
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and his approaches to the history of art, images, and culture more broadly: emphasizing the psychological, anthropological, political, and biological aspects of
Warburgâs work. He sought to inject new energy into the main intellectual directions of the Institute, which, under threat from Nazism, was
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in 2001. The initial aim was to bring humanists and neuroscientists together to assess the possibilities for the humanities and social sciences of new understandings of the neural substrate of responses to art and to images. This was followed by a series of bi-annual conferences on neuroscientific
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From the mid-1980s on, Freedberg began speaking and writing about the importance of the new cognitive neurosciences for the understanding of responses to art and images. He is now devoting a substantial portion of his attention to collaborations with neuroscientists working in fields of movement,
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Throughout
Freedberg has sought to achieve a balanced assessment of new understandings of the neural substrate of responses to humans and their representations. In encouraging such work, he has set out to minimize skepticism and allay fears that the practices and procedures of contemporary
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of drawings made under the auspices of
Galileo's closest friends and collaborators, he began working on the intersection of art and science in the circle of the first modern scientific academy, the Accademia dei Lincei. While much of his work in this area has been published in articles and
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Freedbergâs work has been his many collaborative projects and publications, not only with other art historians and conservation scientists, but also botanists, paleontologists, mycologists and above all neuroscientists.
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Freedberg's more traditional art historical writing originally centered on the fields of Dutch and
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Freedberg also serves on the boards of several academic and professional journals, including Print
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Freedbergâs concerns with historic preservation both in the US and across the globe also resulted in the creation (by him and Barbara Faedda) of the
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and his commitment to fostering interdisciplinary work across the humanities and the sciences. At the Academy he established its pioneering
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During the late 1980s and 1990s Freedberg was involved in several exhibitions of contemporary art, and coauthored
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