Brain, Beauty, and Art

Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvAnjan Chatterjee,Anjan Chatterjee,Eileen Cardilo

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Aesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscience have entered the discussion, and the field of neuroaesthetics has been born.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. Each essay is anchored to an original, peer-reviewed paper from the short history of this new and burgeoning subdiscipline of cognitive neuroscience. Authors of each essay were asked three questions: 1) What motivated the original paper? 2) What were the main findings or theoretical claims made? and, 3) How do those findings or claims fit with the current state and anticipated near future of neuroaesthetics? Together, these essays establish the territory and current boundaries of neuroaesthetics and identify its most promising future directions. Topics include models of neuroaesthetics, and discussions of beauty, art, dance, music, literature, and architecture. Brain, Beauty, and Art will inform and stimulate anyone with an abiding interest in why it is that, across time and culture, we respond to beauty, engage with art, and are affected by music and architecture.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-03-24
Mått165 x 241 x 25 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor280
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197513620

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Anjan Chatterjee is a Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture and the founding Director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. He wrote The Aesthetic Brain: How we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art and co-edited: Neuroethics in Practice: mind, medicine, and society, and The Roots of Cognitive Neuroscience: behavioral neurology and neuropsychology. He has received the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology and the Rudolph Arnheim Prize for contribution to Psychology and the Arts. He is or has been in the editorial board of several journals focused in neuroscience, neurology, ethics, and aesthetics. He is a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Neuroethics Society, the past President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and the past President of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology SocietyEileen Cardillo, DPhil is a cognitive neuroscientist and Associate Director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. She received her B.S. in Biological Psychology at the College of William & Mary and her doctorate in Experimental Psychology while a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Before joining the PCfN, Eileen completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California San Diego and the University of Pennsylvania, with an emphasis on neuropsychological studies of cognition. Her research interests include metaphor, contemplative practice, and the cognitive, affective, and health impacts of aesthetic experiences

Foreword. Where have we been and where are now? A Chatterjee, E Cardlillo Frameworks1. An early framework for a cognitive neuroscience of visual aesthetics. A Chatterjee2. Bringing it all together: neurological and neuroimaging evidence of the neural underpinnings of visual aesthetic. M Nadal, CJ Cela-Conde3. But, what actually happens when we engage with art? M Pelowski, H Leder4. Naturalizing aesthetics. Steven Brown5. Moving towards emotions in the aesthetic experience. C Di Dio and V Gallese6. The aesthetic triad. O Vartanian and A Chatterjee7. How neuroimaging is transforming our understanding of aesthetic taste. M Skov8. The cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience. M Nadal and M Pearce Beauty9. Facial beauty and the medial orbitofrontal cortex. JP O'Doherty, RJ. Dolan 10. Beautiful people in the brain of the beholder. A Chatterjee11. The mark of villainy: the connection between appearance and perceived morality. F Hartung12. A quest for beauty. T Jacobsen 13. Scene preferences, aesthetic appeal and curiosity: revisiting the neurobiology of the infovore. EA Vessel, X Yue, I Biederman14. Kinds of beauty and the prefrontal cortex. T Pegors15. Expertise and aesthetic liking. M Skov & U Kirk16. Social meaning brings beauty: neural response to the beauty of abstract Chinese characters. X He and W Zhang Art17. The contributions of emotion and reward to aesthetic judgment of visual art. O Vartanian18. Embodiment and the aesthetic experience of images. V Gallese, D Freedberg, M Alessandra Umiltà19. The role of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortices in aesthetic valuation. E Munar & CJ Cela-Conde20. The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in aesthetic appreciation. M Nadal, Z Cattaneo, and CJ Cela-Conde 21. Is artistic composition in abstract art detected automatically? C Menzel, G Kovács, GU Hayn-Leichsenring, C Redies22. The contribution of visual area V5 to the perception of implied motion in art and its appreciation. M Nadal and Z Cattaneo23. Art Is Its own reward. S Lacey, K Sathian24. Imaging the subjective. EA Vessel, GG Starr25. Cultural neuroaesthetics of delicate sadness induced by Noh masks. N Osaka 26. Towards a computational understanding of neuroaesthetics. K Iigaya and JP O'Doherty27. Artists, artworks, aesthetics, cognition. WP Seeley28. Aesthetic liking is not only driven by object properties, but also by your expectations. M Skov, U Kirk29. Finding mutual interest between neuroscience and aesthetics: a brush with reality? AJ Parker30. What can we learn about art from people with neurological disease? A Chatterjee Music31. Chills, Bets, And Dopamine: a journey Into music reward. L Ferreri, J Riba, R Zatorre, A Rodriguez-Fornells32. Why does music evoke strong emotions? Testing the endogenous opioid hypothesis. DJ Levitin and LA Fleming33. Music in all its beauty: adopting the naturalistic paradigm to uncover brain processes during the aesthetic musical experience. E Brattico and V Alluri 34. Investigating musical emotions in people with unilateral brain damage. AM Belfi, A Pralus, C Hirel, D Tranel, B Tillmann*, A Caclin* Language and Literature35. The neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading 10 years after. AM Jacobs36. The power of poetry. E Wassiliwizky, W Menninghaus37. Pictograph portrays what it is: neural response to the beauty of concrete Chinese characters. X He and W Zhang Dance38. Movement, synchronization, and partnering in dance. S Brown39. Dance, expertise and sensorimotor aesthetics. B Calvo-Merino40. An eye for the impossible: exploring the attraction of physically impressive dance movements. ES Cross41. The mind, the brain and the moving body: dance as a topic in cognitive neuroscience. B Blaesing, B Calvo-Merino42. Training effects on affective perception of body movements. LP Kirsch, ES Cross Architecture43. The neuroaesthetics of architecture. O Vartanian44. Architectural styles as subordinate scene categories. DB Walther45. Architectural affordances: linking action, perception, and cognition. Z Djebbara, K Gramann46. Architectural design and the mind. A Coburn Afterword. Where are we now and where are we going? A Chatterjee, E Cardlillo

For anyone wishing to learn about the basic constructs and findings of the new field of experimental neuroaesthetics, this is a must-read book and one destined to advance the field. Each chapter is a gem-a brief and highly readable commentary on a pioneering article in which the author(s) of the article explain their motivating hypotheses and reflect on where the field was then, where it is going, and where it should be going.