Zaidel, D. W. (2026) “Aesthetics and morals: Biological and evolutionary intersection of beauty and deception”, In: On Human Nature: Biology, Psychology, Ethics, Politics, and Religion, 2nd Edition, Michel Tibayrenc (Ed.), Cambridge, Mass: Elsevier, (2026) in press
Zaidel, D. W. (2025) “The arts and hemispheric specialization”, In: Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. 208, Chapter 26, C. Papagno and P. Corballis (Eds.), Geneva, Switzerland: Elsevier. 10.1016/B978-0-443-15646-5.00002-6
Zaidel, D. W. and Fabri, M. (2024) “Editorial: The legacy of Dr. Roger W. Sperry: current advances in brain lateralization and interhemispheric transfer”, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 18 (05/29/2024) url: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1433410
Zaidel, D.W., (2024) “The brain and art”, In: The Commonality of Humans Through Art, subtitled How Art Connects Mankind Through the Ages, Stuart Handler (Ed.), London, UK: Paul Hoberton Publishing.
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
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., (Spring 2022) Paleoaesthetics, Evolutionary 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. (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 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) Independent and unified consciousness co-existence in commissurotomy cases, Neuropsychologia, 160(2021):107986 – 107987 (08/05/2021) 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107986
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 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46190-4_4
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 https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108580298.036
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 . https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.1520
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. (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. (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., (2017). Art in early human evolution: Socially-driven art forms versus material art. Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture, 1 (1), 149-157.
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.
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. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1745691615621274
Zaidel, D. W. (2015). Neuroesthetics is not just about art. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Vol. 9, 80, February, 2015
Zaidel, D. W. (2015). Hemispheric specialization, art, and aesthetics. In, Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain , J. P. Huston, M. Nadal, L. Agnati, F. Mora, C. J. Cela-Conde (Eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Zaidel, D. W. (2014). Creativity, brain, and art: Biological and neurological considerations. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8:389.
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). 10.1016/B978-0-444-63287-6.00011-7
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). 10.1016/B978-0-444-63287-6.00001-4
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: Palgrave McMillan. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137320056_2
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. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262019583.003.0007
Zaidel, D. W. (2013). Cognition and art: The current interdisciplinary approach. WIREs Cognitive Science, 4, 431-439. Doi: 10.1002/wcs.1236 https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcs.1236
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. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-06417-010
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. 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. (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 Hessamian, M. (2010). Symmetry and asymmetry in the beauty of human faces. Symmetry, 2, 136-149.
Zaidel, D. W. (2010). Art and brain: Insights from neuropsychology, biology and evolution. Journal of Anatomy, 216, 177-183.
Zaidel, D. W. (2009). Brain and art: Neuro-clues from intersection of disciplines. In, Neuroaesthetics, M. Skov & O. Vartanian (Eds.), Amityville, NY: Baywood. https://www.scribd.com/document/769467442/Neuroaesthetics
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. (2007). Overall intelligence and localized brain damage. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 173-174.
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. 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 Cohen, J. A. (2005). The face, beauty, and symmetry: Perceiving asymmetry in beautiful faces. International Journal of Neuroscience, 115, 1165-1173.
Zaidel, D. W. (2005). Book review of Space in Science, Art, & Society. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 80, 104.
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
Deblieck, C. and Zaidel, D. W. (2003). Hemifield memory for attractiveness. International Journal of Neuroscience, 113, 931-941.
Zaidel, D. W., Bava, S., Reis, V. A. (2003). Relationship between facial asymmetry and judging trustworthiness in faces. Laterality, 8, 225-232.
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.
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
Zaidel, D. W. (2002). Book review of Sex & Cognition by Doreen Kimura, Human Nature Review, 2, 239-241 (19 June).
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. and Kosta, A. (2001). Hemispheric effects of canonical views of category members with known typicality levels. Brain and Cognition, 46(1/2): 311-316.
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.
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