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Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Brains in Bodies in the - Social, Built and Natural - Environment; 1.1. Linking Physical and Mental and Construction; 1.2. Framing the AN Conversation; 1.3. How Brains Meet Buildings; 1.4 The Many Levels of the Brain; 1.5. A Key Debate: Is Neuroscience Relevant to Architecture?; Chapter 2. An Action-Oriented Perspective on Space and Affordances; 2.1. In an Art Gallery: From Wayfinding to Contemplation; 2.2. Affordances and Effectivities; 2.3. The Thinking Hand; 2.4. The Thinking Hand and Its Schemas; 2.5. Schemas: Up to Society; Down to Neurons; 2.6. The Thinking Hand and Its Brain; 2.7. Design in Architecture and in Brain Modeling; Chapter 3. A Look at Vision, and a Touch More; 3.1. Engineering and Architectural Aesthetics; 3.2. Neural Circuits for Vision; 3.3. Learning and Memory; 3.4. VISIONS: Scene Perception as a Form of Construction; 3.5. Aesthetic Judgement of Visual Form; 3.6. Schemas Within and Beyond Vision; Chapter 4. Atmosphere, Affordances, and Emotion; 4.1. Atmosphere Exemplified; 4.2. Motivation, Emotion, and Brains; 4.3. Atmosphere as a Non-Gibsonian Affordance; 4.4. The Evocation of Atmosphere in Paintings; 4.5. Seeking Neural Correlates of Environments Inducing Contemplative States; 4.6. Experiences of Ultimacy; Chapter 5. From Empathy to Mirror Neurons and Back to Aesthetics; 5.1. Empathy and Einfuhlung in Life, Architecture and Art; 5.2. Mirror Neurons and Their Larger Setting; 5.3. How Neural Nets Enable Us to Learn and Remember; 5.4. Modeling How Mirror Neurons Learn and Function; 5.5. Empathy and the Brain; 5.6. Einfuhlung and the Motor Component of Contemplation; 5.7. Neuroaesthetics Revisited, and More; Chapter 6. From Libraries to Wayfinding, Waylosing, and Symbolism; 6.1. Libraries; 6.2. A Cognitive Account of Wayfinding; 6.3. It Takes More Than a Hippocampus to Build a Cognitive Map; 6.4. Symbolism and Symbols; Chapter 7. When Buildings Have Brains; 7.1. Machines for Living In, Revisited; 7.2. Can Architecture Be Smart, Can Intelligence Be Artificial?; 7.3. The Interactive Space Ada; 7.4. Neuromorphic Architecture: Neural and Physical Spaces for Buildings; 7.5. Community

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