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Ludovica Lumer

Title: Psychoanalyst; Neuroesthetics Researcher

Institution: University College London (research affiliate)

Discipline: Neuroscience & Cognition

Appearances: 1

Notable: Co-author of For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (Bloomsbury, 2021); pioneering research in neuroesthetics with Semir Zeki; co-authored three books on neuroscience, art, and psychoanalysis

Biography

Ludovica Lumer is a philosopher, neurobiologist, and psychoanalyst born in Milan who has worked since 1997 with Semir Zeki at University College London researching neuroesthetics and the relationship between visual perception and artistic representation. She maintains a private psychoanalytic practice in New York City and has lectured for many years in the Psychology Department of Milano University.

Sample Works

For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (2018) Book
Neural Correlates of Perceptual Rivalry in the Human Brain (1998) Paper
La bella e la bestia: Arte e neuroscienze (with Semir Zeki) (2011) Book

Roundtable Appearances

October 12, 9:00 AM - 4:15 PM, 2013 · ▶ Video

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1

The symposium explores Warburg's intellectual preoccupations including "memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to...

Anjan Chatterjee, Georges Didi-Huberman, David Freedberg, Vittorio Gallese, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Ludovica Lumer, Edward Nersessian, Andrea Pinotti, Francois Quiviger, Dorothea Rockburne, Christopher Wood

Podcast

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