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Download full textDissanayake, Ellen – American Journal of Play, 2017
The author considers the biological basis of the arts in human evolution, which she holds to be grounded in ethology and interpersonal neurobiology. In the arts, she argues, ordinary reality becomes extraordinary by attention-getting, emotionally salient devices that also appear in ritualized animal behaviors, many kinds of play, and the playful…
Descriptors: Play, Art, Neurosciences, Animal Behavior
