Neuroaesthetics
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Neuroaesthetics

  1. 336 pages
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Neuroaesthetics

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Neuroaesthetics by Martin Skov,Oshin Vartanian,Colin Martindale,Arnold Berleant in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Psychology & Mental Health in Psychology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780895033369
eBook ISBN
9781351842853
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
Mental Health in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Chapter 1 Introduction: What is Neuroaesthetics?
  7. Chapter 2 Neuroaesthetic Problems: A Framework for Neuroaesthetic Research
  8. Chapter 3 Neuroaesthetics and the Psychology of Aesthetics
  9. Chapter 4 The Arts are More than Aesthetics: Neuroaesthetics as Narrow Aesthetics
  10. Chapter 5 Bio-Aesthetics and the Aesthetic Trajectory: A Dynamic Cognitive and Cultural Perspective
  11. Chapter 6 Constraining Hypotheses on the Evolution of Art and Aesthetic Appreciation
  12. Chapter 7 Prospects for a Neuropsychology of Visual Art
  13. Chapter 8 Brain and Art: Neuro-Clues from Intersection of Disciplines
  14. Chapter 9 Allusions to Visual Representation
  15. Chapter 10 Musical Sounds in the Human Brain
  16. Chapter 11 Neuroaesthetics of Literary Reading
  17. Chapter 12 Film Aesthetics and the Embodied Brain
  18. Chapter 13 Conscious Experience of Pleasure in Art
  19. Chapter 14 The Origins of Aesthetic Pleasure: Processing Fluency and Affect in Judgment, Body, and the Brain
  20. Contributors
  21. Index