Neuroaesthetics

Martin Skov, Oshin Vartanian, Colin Martindale, Arnold Berleant (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2009
Baywood Publishing Company Inc (Verlag)
978-0-89503-336-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

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

Introduction: What is Neuroaesthetics?
Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian

CHAPTER 2
Neuroaesthetic Problems: A Framework for Neuroaesthetic Research
Martin Skov

CHAPTER 3
Neuroaesthetics and the Psychology of Aesthetics
Thomas Jacobsen

CHAPTER 4
The Arts are More than Aesthetics: Neuroaesthetics as Narrow Aesthetics
Steven Brown and Ellen Dissanayake

CHAPTER 5
Bio-Aesthetics and the Aesthetic Trajectory: A Dynamic Cognitive and Cultural Perspective
W. Tecumseh Fitch, Antje von Graevenitz, and Eric Nicolas

CHAPTER 6
Constraining Hypotheses on the Evolution of Art and Aesthetic Appreciation
Marcos Nadal, Miquel Capó, Enric Munar, Gisèle Marty, and Camilo José Cela-Conde

CHAPTER 7
Prospects for a Neuropsychology of Visual Art
Anjan Chatterjee

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CHAPTER 8
Brain and Art: Neuro-Clues from Intersection of Disciplines
Dahlia W. Zaidel

CHAPTER 9
Allusions to Visual Representation
Nicholas Wade

CHAPTER 10
Musical Sounds in the Human Brain
Mari Tervaniemi

CHAPTER 11
Neuroaesthetics of Literary Reading
David S. Miall

CHAPTER 12
Film Aesthetics and the Embodied Brain
Torben Grodal

CHAPTER 13
Conscious Experience of Pleasure in Art
Oshin Vartanian

CHAPTER 14
The Origins of Aesthetic Pleasure: Processing Fluency and Affect in Judgment, Body, and the Brain
Troy Chenier and Piotr Winkielman

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.7.2009
Reihe/Serie	Foundations and Frontiers in Aesthetics Series
Verlagsort	Amityville
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	566 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
ISBN-10	0-89503-336-4 / 0895033364
ISBN-13	978-0-89503-336-9 / 9780895033369
Zustand	Neuware