Publications Update
Reis, V. A. and Zaidel, D. W. (2001). Functional asymmetry in the human face: Perception of health in the left and right sides of the face. Laterality, 6, 225-231.
Zaidel, D. W. and Kosta, A. (2001). Hemispheric effects of canonical views of category members with known typicality levels. Brain and Cognition, 46(1/2): 311-316.
Zaidel, D. W. (2001). Neuron soma size in the left and right hippocampus of a genius. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, vol. 27, [about Einstein’s brain]
Zaidel, D. W. (2002). Book review of Sex & Cognition by Doreen Kimura, Human Nature Review, 2, 239-241 (19 June).
Lavados, M., Carrasco, X., Pena, M., Zaidel, D. W., and Aboitiz, F. (2002). A new sign of callosal disconnection syndrome: Agonistic dyspraxia. A case study. NeuroCase, 8, 480-483
Aboitiz, F., Carrasco, X., Schroter C., Zaidel, D. W., Zaidel E., and Lavados, M. (2003). The alien hand syndrome:Classification of forms reported and discussion of a new condition. Neurological Science, 24, 252-257.
Zaidel, D. W., Bava, S., Reis, V. A. (2003). Relationship between facial asymmetry and judging trustworthiness in faces. Laterality, 8, 225-232.
Deblieck, C. and Zaidel, D. W. (2003). Hemifield memory for attractiveness. International Journal of Neuroscience, 113, 931-941.
Zaidel, D. W., Aarde, S. M., and Baig, K. (2005). Appearance of beauty, health, and symmetry in human faces. Brain and Cognition, 57, 261-263
Zaidel, D. W. (2005). Book review of Space in Science, Art, & Society. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 80, 104.
Zaidel, D. W. and Cohen, J. A. (2005). The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces. International Journal of Neuroscience, 115, 1165-1173.
Zaidel, D.W. and Hessamian, M. (2005). Facial beauty is independent of bilateral left-right face symmetry. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Washington, DC, Vol. 31.
Zaidel, D. W. and Deblieck, C. (2007). Attractiveness of natural faces compared to computer constructed perfectly symmetrical faces. International Journal of Neuroscience, 117, 423-431.
Zaidel, D. W. (2007). Overall intelligence and localized brain damage. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 173-174.
Zaidel, D. W. (2009). The brain, biology, and evolution in art and its communication. International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2, 152-160.
Zaidel, D. W. (2009). Brain and art: Neuro-clues from intersection of disciplines. In, Neuroaesthetics, M. Skov & O. Vartanian (Eds.), Amityville, NY: Baywood.
Zaidel, D. W. (2010). Art and brain: Insights from neuropsychology, biology and evolution. Journal of Anatomy, 216, 177-183.
Zaidel, D. W. and Hessamian, M. (2010). Symmetry and asymmetry in the beauty of human faces. Symmetry, 2, 136-149.
Zaidel, D. W. (2011). Neuroscience, biology, and brain evolution in visual art. In, The Aesthetic Mind: Philosophy and Psychology, Schellekens & P. Goldie (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zaidel, D. W. and Nadal, M. (2011). Brain intersections of aesthetics and morals: Perspectives from biology, neuroscience, and evolution. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 54, 367-380.
Zaidel, D. W. (2012). Book review of Moral Origins: The evolution of virtue, altruism, and shame, by Christopher Boehm. American Journal of Human Biology , 24, 719-722.
Zaidel, D. W., Nadal, M., Flexas, A. and Munar, E. (2013). An evolutionary approach to art and aesthetic experience. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7(1), 100-109.
Zaidel, D. W. (2013). Cognition and art: The current interdisciplinary approach. WIREs Cognitive Science, 4, 431-439. Doi: 10.1002/wcs.1236
Zaidel, D. W. (2013). Biological and neuronal underpinnings of creativity in the arts. In, The Neuroscience of Creativity, Vartanian, A. Bristol & J. Kaufman, Eds., Cambridge: MIT Press.
Zaidel, D. W. (2013). Consciousness and the brain: A window to the mind. In, Embodied Consciousness: Technologies of Performance , R. McCutcheon & B. Sellers-Young (Eds.), NY: Pelgrave McMillan.
Zaidel, D. W. (2013). Split-brain, the right hemisphere, and art: Fact and fiction. In, The fine arts, neurology, and neuroscience: History and modern perspectives: New discoveries and changing landscapes, Finger, S., Zaidel, D. W., Boller, F., Bogousslavsky, J. (Eds.), Oxford: Elsevier. (Progress in Brain Research Series, vol. 204).
Zaidel, D. W. (2013). Art and brain: The relationship of biology and evolution to art. In, The fine arts, neurology, and neuroscience: History and modern perspectives: New discoveries and changing landscapes, Finger, S., Zaidel, D. W., Boller, F., Bogousslavsky, J. (Eds.), Oxford: Elsevier. (Progress in Brain Research Series, Vol. 204).
Zaidel, D. W. (2014). Creativity, brain, and art: Biological and neurological considerations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:389.
Zaidel, D. W. (2015). Hemispheric specialization, art, and aesthetics. In, Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain , Nadal, J. P. Huston, L. Agnati, F. Mora, C. J. Cela-Conde (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zaidel, D. W. (2015). Neuroesthetics is not just about art. F rontiers in Human Neuroscience Vol. 9, article 80, February, 2015
Pearce, M. T., Zaidel, D. W., Vartanian, O., Skov, M., Leder, H., Chatterjee, A., & Nadal, M. (2016). Neuroaesthetics: The cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(2):265-279.
Boccia, M., Barbetti, S., Piccardi, L., Guariglia, C., Ferlazzo, F., Giannini, A.M., Zaidel D.W. (2016). Where does brain neural activation in aesthetic responses occur? Meta-analytic evidence from neuroimaging studies. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews , 60, 65-71.
Zaidel, D. W., (2017). Art in early human evolution: Socially-driven art forms versus material art. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 1 (1), 149-157.
Zaidel, D. W. (2017) Braque and Kokoschka: Brain tissue injury and preservation of artistic skill. Behavioral Sciences, 7, 56-63. Doi:10.3390/bs/7030056
Zaidel, D. W. (2018). Culture and art: Importance of art practice, not aesthetics, to early human culture. Progress in Brain Research , 237, 25-40. Doi:10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.001
Zaidel, D. W. (2019). The arts and human symbolic cognition: Art is for social communication. In Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination, edited by A. Abraham.
Zaidel, D. W. (2019). The evolution of aesthetics and beauty. In The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics , edited by M. Nadal and O. Vartanian. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Zaidel, D. W. (2019). Co-evolution of language and symbolic meaning: Co-opting meaning underlying the initial arts in early human culture. WIREs Cognitive Science, Vol. 11, issue 2 . url: https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1520
Zaidel, D. W., (2020) “The arts and human symbolic cognition: Art is for social communication”, In: Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination, Anna Abraham (Ed.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 593-607
Zaidel, D. W., (2020) “Imagination, symbolic cognition, and human evolution: The early arts facilitated group survival”, In: Evolutionary Perspectives on Imaginative Culture, Carroll, J., Clasen, M., Jonsoon, E. (Eds.), Springer, 71-89
Zaidel, D. W., (2021) “Independent and unified consciousness co-existence in commissurotomy cases”, Neuropsychologia, Elsevier, 160(2021):107986 – 107987 (08/05/2021) url: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393221002396?via%3Dihub
Zaidel, D. W., (Spring 2021) “Paleoaesthetics”, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 5.1:140 – 143 url: DOI:10.26613/esic/5.1.230. https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.230
Zaidel, D. W. (2021) Paleolithic art. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 5.2 (2), 153-154, Fall. Doi: 10.26613/esic/5.2.261. https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.2.261
Zaidel, D. W., (Spring 2022) “Paleoaesthetics”, Evolutonary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 6(1):143 – 146 url: DOI: 10.26613/esic/6.1.263 https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.6.1.291
Zaidel, D. W., (Fall 2022) “Paleoaesthetics”, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 6(2):159 – 160 url: DOI: 10.26613/esic/6.2.296 https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.6.2.315
Zaidel, D.W., (2023) “The art of film: Perspective on neural clues to repeated attraction to movie watching”, Neuropsychologia, 180:108485 – 108488 (January 2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2023.108485
Edited books :
Finger, S., Zaidel, D. W., Boller, F., Bogousslavsky, J. (Eds.). (2013) The fine arts, neurology, and neuroscience: History and modern perspectives: Neuro-historical dimensions, Oxford: Elsevier (Progress in Brain Research Series, Volume 203).
Finger, S., Zaidel, D. W., Boller, F., Bogousslavsky, J. (Eds.). (2013) The fine arts, neurology, and neuroscience: History and modern perspectives: New discoveries and changing landscapes, Oxford: Elsevier (Progress in Brain Research Series, Volume 204).
My book on art and brain :
Zaidel, D. W. (2005). Neuropsychology of art: Neurological, cognitive, and evolutionary perspectives. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
Zaidel, D. W. (2015, 2nd Edition). Neuropsychology of art: Neurological, cognitive, and evolutionary perspectives Hove, UK: Psychology Press.
(Color Figures for Neuropsychology of Art book.)
Book review of Neuropsychology of Art by Franz
Book review of Neuropsychology of Art by Piccardi
Book review of Neuropsychology of Art in The Psychologist
Book review of Neuropsychology of Art in Cortex
Book review of Neuropsychology of Art in TRENDS