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“Don’t talk,” says Natalie Sebanz, a professor of cognitive science at Central European University in Austria.

Read full interview on nytimes.com with Prof Natalie Sebanz HERE.

Art theory has consistently emphasised the importance of situational, cultural, institutional and historical factors in viewers’ experience of fine art. However, the link between this heavily context-dependent interpretation and the workings of the mind is often left unexamined. The recently published article situates and describes the Western fine art tradition as a phenomenon that is a consequence of both the cognitive processes involved in communication, and of cultural norms, practices and institutions.