The beginning of psychological aesthetics is normally traced back to the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner's seminal book "Vorschule der Aesthetik" in 1876. Following in the footsteps of this rich tradition, editors Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian view neuroaesthetics - the emerging field of inquiry concerned with uncovering the ways in which aesthetic behavior is caused by brain processes - as a natural extension of Fechner's 'empirical spirit' to understand the link between the objective and subjective worlds inherent in aesthetic experience. The editors had two specific aims for this book. The first was to highlight the diversity of approaches that are underway under the banner of neuroaesthetics.Currently, this topic is being investigated from experimental, evolutionary, neuropsychological, and neuroimaging perspectives to tackle problems in the visual arts, literature, music, and film. Its quintessentially interdisciplinary nature has functioned as a breeding ground for generating and testing hypotheses in multiple domains. The second goal was more integrative and involved distilling some of the key features common to these diverse strands of work. The book presents a possible framework for neuroaesthetics by highlighting what the contributors consider to be its defining features and offering a working definition of neuroaesthetics that captures these features. "Neuroaesthetics" will provide an empirical and theoretical framework to motivate further work in this area. Ultimately, the hope is that puzzles in aesthetics can be solved through insights from biology, but that the contribution can be truly bidirectional.
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Highlights the diversity of approaches that are underway under the banner of neuroaesthetics. This book presents a possible framework for neuroaesthetics by highlighting what the contributors consider to be its defining features and offering a working definition of neuroaesthetics that captures these features.
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Introduction: What is Neuroaesthetics? Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian CHAPTER 2 Neuroaesthetic Problems: A Framework for Neuroaesthetic ResearchMartin Skov CHAPTER 3 Neuroaesthetics and the Psychology of AestheticsThomas Jacobsen CHAPTER 4 The Arts are More than Aesthetics: Neuroaesthetics as Narrow AestheticsSteven Brown and Ellen Dissanayake CHAPTER 5 Bio-Aesthetics and the Aesthetic Trajectory: A Dynamic Cognitive and Cultural PerspectiveW. Tecumseh Fitch, Antje von Graevenitz, and Eric Nicolas CHAPTER 6 Constraining Hypotheses on the Evolution of Art and Aesthetic AppreciationMarcos Nadal, Miquel Capó, Enric Munar, Gisèle Marty, and Camilo José Cela-Conde CHAPTER 7 Prospects for a Neuropsychology of Visual Art Anjan Chatterjee Color Photo SectionCHAPTER 8 Brain and Art: Neuro-Clues from Intersection of DisciplinesDahlia W. Zaidel CHAPTER 9 Allusions to Visual RepresentationNicholas Wade CHAPTER 10 Musical Sounds in the Human BrainMari TervaniemiCHAPTER 11 Neuroaesthetics of Literary ReadingDavid S. Miall CHAPTER 12 Film Aesthetics and the Embodied BrainTorben Grodal CHAPTER 13 Conscious Experience of Pleasure in ArtOshin Vartanian CHAPTER 14 The Origins of Aesthetic Pleasure: Processing Fluency and Affect in Judgment, Body, and the BrainTroy Chenier and Piotr Winkielman Meet the Contributors Contributors Index
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ISBN
9780415783712
Publisert
2017-03-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
566 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, U, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
308

Biographical note

Skov, Martin; Vartanian, Oshin; Martindale, Colin; Berleant, Arnold