Zeki is studying why people tend prefer certain patterns of moving dots to others.

CNN: What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience

Semir Zeki at University College London is credited with establishing this discipline, and says it's mushrooming.

CNN: What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience

Initially, Dr Zeki employed a scanning technique called positron-emission tomography to investigate these regions.

ECONOMIST: The biology of art

This group works at University College London under the tutelage of Semir Zeki and his colleague Matthew Lamb.

ECONOMIST: The biology of art | The

According to Dr Zeki and Dr Lamb, this analysis goes a long way towards explaining how different art movements achieve their particular effects.

ECONOMIST: The biology of art

Zeki said many challenges against his field are based on the false assumption that he and colleagues are trying to explain works of art.

CNN: What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience

Semir Zeki is a British Professor of Neuroesthetics at the University College London (UCL), a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society.

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How come the new chairman of Turkey's largest state bank, Ziraat, is Zeki Sayin, who worked under Mr Erdogan during his days as mayor of Istanbul, and later became head of an Islamic finance house?

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