Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 October 2018
- ISBN 9780198825234
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages568 pages
- Size 247x174x25 mm
- Weight 1104 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How did such processes evolve? This book brings together experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy to explore these questions. It sets the stage for a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics.
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Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among other means, constitutes a fundamental aspect of our species' biological and cultural heritage. Art and aesthetics, therefore, contribute to our species identity and distinguish it from its living and extinct relatives.
Science is faced with the challenge of explaining the natural foundations of such a unique trait, and the way cultural processes nurture it into magnificent expressions, historically and ethnically unique. How does the human brain bring about these sorts of behaviors? What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How does training modulate these processes? How are they impaired by brain lesions and neurodegenerative diseases? How did such neural underpinnings evolve? Are humans the only species capable of aesthetic appreciation, or are other species endowed with the rudiments of this capacity?
This volume brings together the work on such questions by leading experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy. It sets the stage for a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics, understood in the broadest possible terms. With sections on visual art, dance, music, neuropsychology, and evolution, the breadth of this volume's scope reflects the richness and variety of topics and methods currently used today by scientists to understand the way our brain endows us with the faculty to produce and appreciate art and aesthetics.
An interesting, timely, and provocative book
Table of Contents:
Section One: Foundational Issues
Neuroculture: A new cultural revolution?
Art, meaning, and aesthetics: the case for a cognitive neuroscience of art
States, People, and Contexts: Three Psychological Challenges for the Neuroscience of Aesthetics
Aesthetic appreciation - convergence from experimental aesthetics and physiology
The Moving Eye of the Beholder. Eye-Tracking and the Perception of Paintings
Section Two: Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Aesthetics and Art
Neural Mechanisms for Evaluating the Attractiveness of Faces
Indeterminate Art Works and the Human Brain
Contextual bias and insulation against bias during esthetic rating: the implication of VMPFC and DLPFC in neural valuation
Neuroimaging Studies of Making Aesthetic Products
Section Three: Cognitive Neuroscience of Dance
Beautiful embodiment: The shaping of aesthetic preference by personal experience
Sensorimotor aesthetics: Neural correlates of aesthetic perception of dance
Moving towards ecological validity in empirical aesthetics
Section Four: Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
Liking music: Genres, contextual factors, and individual differences
Tension-resolution patterns as a key element of aesthetic experience: psychological principles and underlying brain mechanisms
From Pleasure to Liking and Back: Bottom-up and Top-down Neural Routes to the Aesthetic Enjoyment of Music
Effects of expertise on the cognitive and neural processes involved in musical appreciation
Section Five: Neuropsychology of Art and Aesthetics
The Neuropsychology of Visual Art
The Creation of Art in the Setting of Dementia
Hemispheric Specialization, Art, and Aesthetics
Section Six: The Evolution of Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain
Towards a comparative approach to empirical aesthetics
Art and Brain Coevolution
Art as a human "instinct-like " behaviour emerging from the exaptation of the communication processes
Section Seven: Integrative Approaches
Neurobiological foundations of art and aesthetics
Aesthetic evaluation of art: a formal approach
Tempos of Eternity: Music, Volition, and Playing with Time
