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The distinguished neuroscientist and professor at University College London (UCL), studies the neural correlates of affective states, like love, desire and..

In this lecture, given in honour of Sir William Paton, a brilliant scientist and one of Britain's great patrons of biology.

  • Semir Zeki's 27 research works with 156 citations, including: Neural correlates of the experience of ugliness.
  • The distinguished neuroscientist and professor at University College London (UCL), studies the neural correlates of affective states, like love, desire and.
  • Semir Zeki mainly investigates Neuroscience, Artificial intelligence, Visual cortex, Beauty and Perception.
  • The specific results of the experiment reveal that the artist takes less time, less brain concentration, and less physical fatigue than the non-artist.

    • Semir Zeki

    British neurobiologist

    Semir ZekiFMedSciFRS (born 8 November 1940)[1] is a British and French neurobiologist who has specialised in studying the primate visual brain and more recently the neural correlates of affective states, such as the experience of love, desire and beauty that are generated by sensory inputs within the field of neuroesthetics.

    He was educated at University College London (UCL) where he was Henry Head Research Fellow of the Royal Society before being appointed Professor of Neurobiology. Since 2008 he has been Professor of Neuroesthetics at UCL.

    Early work

    Zeki's early work was mainly anatomical in nature and consisted in charting visual areas in the primate (monkey) brain by studying their connections, leading him to define several visual areas lying anterior to the primary visual cortex (area V1) of the brain.[2][3] This was followed by recording from single cells in these areas, which led him to the view (a)