Foreword . . v
List of Contributors . . xxiii

Editors' Introduction . . 1
1. Making Sense of Art, Making Art of Sense . . 9
2. The Science and Art of the Sixth Sense . . 19
3. The Art of Touch in Early Modern Italy . . 59
4. The Multisensory Perception of Touch . . 85
5. Aesthetic Touch . . 107
6. Rendering the Sensory World Semantic . . 115
7. Sculpture and Touch . . 133
8. Touch and the Cinematic Experience . . 149
9. Hearing Scents, Tasting Sights: Toward a Cross-Cultural Multimodal Theory of Aesthetics . . 161
10. The Science of Taste and Smell . . 183
11. 'Sound Bites': Auditory Contributions to the Perception and Consumption of Food and Drink . . 207
12. Thinking Multisensory Culture . . 239
13. Sighting Sound: Listening with Eyes Open . . 251
14. The Sight and Sound of Music: Audiovisual Interactions in Science and the Arts . . 265
15. Improvisation in Time: The Art of Jazz . . 293
16. Musical Tension . . 311
17. Cause and Affect: A Functional Perspective on Music and Emotion . . 329
18. The Mystery of Representation: A Conversation with Vik Muniz . . 351
19. Pictorial Cues in Art and in Visual Perception . . 359
20. The Many Dimensions of the Third One . . 395
21. Film, Narrative, and Cognitive Neuroscience . . 435
22. Mirror Neurons and Art . . 455
23. Pictorial Art Beyond Sight: Revealing the Mind of a Blind Painter . . 465
24. Visual Music in Arts and Minds: Explorations with Synaesthesia . . 481
25. Visual Music and Musical Paintings: The Quest for Synaesthesia in the Arts . . 495
26. Dance, Choreography, and the Brain . . 513
27. Neuroaesthetics of Performing Arts . . 529
28. Multisensory Aesthetics in Product Design . . 543
29. Architecture and the Body . . 571
30. Architecture and the Existential Sense: Space, Body, and the Senses . . 579
31. Multimodal, Interactive Media and the Illusion of Reality . . 599

Index . . 619