Part 1: Brain damage, creativity, and the fine arts. Split-brain, the right hemisphere, and art : fact and fiction -- Visual artistic creativity and the brain -- Artistic creativity, artistic production and aging -- Focal cerebral lesions and painting abilities -- Artistic creativity and dementia -- Part 2: Further insights on the brain and the fine arts -- Deceiving the brain : pictures and visual perception -- The experience of art : insights from neuroimaging -- On the electrophysiology of aesthetic processing -- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein : exploring neuroscience, nature and nurture in the novel and the films -- Perception of emotion in abstract artworks : a multidisciplinary approach -- Art and brain : the relationship of biology and evolution to art.