title: Motor perception and anatomical realism in Classical Greek art.
abstract: The rise of anatomical realism in sculpture with the Classical Greeks puzzles art historians. Recently, it has been discovered that the motor cortex perceives motor actions. I argue that Classical artists discovered a new aesthetic based on using art to stimulate not just, as previously, the visual cortex, but also the motor one.
authors.affiliation: Skoyles@globalnet.co.uk
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Skoyles
mesh_terms: D000715:Anatomy; D004954:Esthetics; D000076145:Greece, Ancient; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009039:Motion Perception; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D012613:Sculpture / Q000266:history*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception