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Brain, beauty, and art : essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus / edited by Anjan Chatterjee, Eileen Cardilo.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--Physiological aspects.
- Aesthetics--Psychological aspects.
- Arts--Physiological aspects.
- Arts--Psychological aspects.
- Cognitive neuroscience.
- Esthetics.
- Brain--physiology.
- Art.
- Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Medical Subjects:
- Esthetics.
- Brain--physiology.
- Art.
- Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 257 pages) : illustrations.
- Other Title:
- Essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- In Brain, Beauty, and Art, leading scholars in this nascent field reflect on the promise of neuroaesthetics to enrich our understanding of this universal yet diverse facet of human experience. The volume consists of essays from foundational researchers whose empirical work launched the field.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Brain, Beauty, &
- Art
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prologue Where Have We Been, and Where Are We Now?
- Contributors
- Section I Frameworks
- 1. An Early Framework for a Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Aesthetics
- 2. Bringing It All Together: Neurological and Neuroimaging Evidence of the Neural Underpinnings of Visual Aesthetics
- 3. But, What Actually Happens When We Engage with "Art"?
- 4. Naturalizing Aesthetics
- 5. Moving Toward Emotions in the Aesthetic Experience
- 6. The Aesthetic Triad
- 7. How Neuroimaging Is Transforming Our Understanding of Aesthetic Taste
- 8. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
- Section II Beauty
- 9. Facial Beauty and the Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex
- 10. Beautiful People in the Brain of the Beholder
- 11. The Mark of Villainy: The Connection Between Appearance and Perceived Morality
- 12. A Quest for Beauty
- 13. Scene Preferences, Aesthetic Appeal, and Curiosity: Revisiting the Neurobiology of the Infovore
- 14. Kinds of Beauty and the Prefrontal Cortex
- 15. Expertise and Aesthetic Liking
- 16. Social Meaning Brings Beauty: Neural Response to the Beauty of Abstract Chinese Characters
- Section III Art
- 17. The Contributions of Emotion and Reward to Aesthetic Judgment of Visual Art
- 18. Embodiment and the Aesthetic Experience of Images
- 19. The Role of Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortices in Aesthetic Valuation
- 20. Noninvasive Brain Stimulation of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex During Aesthetic Appreciation
- 21. Is Artistic Composition in Abstract Art Detected Automatically?
- 22. The Contribution of Visual Area V5 to the Perception of Implied Motion in Art and Its Appreciation
- 23. Art Is Its Own Reward
- 24. Imaging the Subjective
- 25. Cultural Neuroaesthetics of Delicate Sadness Induced by Noh Masks.
- 26. Toward a Computational Understanding of Neuroaesthetics
- 27. Artists, Artworks, Aesthetics, Cognition
- 28. Aesthetic Liking Is Not Only Driven by Object Properties, but Also by Your Expectations
- 29. Finding Mutual Interest Between Neuroscience and Aesthetics: A Brush with Reality?
- 30. What Can We Learn About Art from People with Neurological Disease?
- Section IV Music
- 31. Chills, Bets, and Dopamine: A Journey into Music Reward
- 32. Why Does Music Evoke Strong Emotions? Testing the Endogenous Opioid Hypothesis
- 33. Music in All Its Beauty: Adopting the Naturalistic Paradigm to Uncover Brain Processes During the Aesthetic Musical Experience
- 34. Investigating Musical Emotions in People with Unilateral Brain Damage
- Section V Language and Literature
- 35. The Neurocognitive Poetics Model of Literary Reading 10 Years After
- 36. The Power of Poetry
- 37. Pictograph Portrays What It Is: Neural Response to the Beauty of Concrete Chinese Characters
- Section VI Dance
- 38. Movement, Synchronization, and Partnering in Dance
- 39. Dance, Expertise, and Sensorimotor Aesthetics
- 40. An Eye for the Impossible: Exploring the Attraction of Physically Impressive Dance Movements
- 41. The Mind, the Brain, and the Moving Body: Dance as a Topic in Cognitive Neuroscience
- 42. Training Effects on Affective Perception of Body Movements
- Section VII Architecture
- 43. The Neuroaesthetics of Architecture
- 44. Architectural Styles as Subordinate Scene Categories
- 45. Architectural Affordances: Linking Action, Perception, and Cognition
- 46. Architectural Design and the Mind
- Epilogue Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going?
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-751364-6
- 0-19-751365-4
- 0-19-751363-8
- OCLC:
- 1281968800
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