1st Edition
Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts
Preface
Colin Martindale
Chapter 1
What Art is and What Art Does: An Overview of Contemporary Evolutionary Hypotheses Ellen Dissanayake
Chapter 2
An Evolutionary Model of Artistic and Musical Creativity Gregory J. Feist
Chapter 3
The Adaptive Function of Literature Joseph Carroll
Chapter 4
Does Reading Literature Make People Happy? Willie van Peer, Alexandra Menties and Jan Auracher
Chapter 5
Cognitive Poetics and Poetry Recital Reuven Tsur
Chapter 6
The Alphabet and Creativity: Implications for East Asia William C. Hannas
Chapter 7
Creativity, Gender, History, and Authors of Fantasy for Children Ravenna Helson
Chapter 8
Trends in the Creative Content of Scientific Journals: Good, but Not as Good! Robert Hogenraad
Chapter 9
The Information Approach to Human Sciences, Especially Aesthetics Vladimir M. Petrov
Chapter 10
Art and Cognition: Cognitive Processes in Art Appreciation Helmut Leder and Benno Belke
Chapter 11
Literary Creativity: A Neuro-Psychoanalytic View Norman N. Holland
Chapter 12
A Neural-Network Theory of Beauty Colin Martindale
Chapter 13
Neural Correlates of Creative Cognition Oshin Vartanian and Vinod Goel
Chapter 14
Creativity, DNA, and Cerebral Blood Flow Rosa Aurora Chávez-Eakle
Chapter 15
Artistic Creativity and Affective Disorders: Are They Connected? Dennis K. Kinney and Ruth L. Richards
Biography
Colin Martindale, Paul Locher, Vladimir Petrov, Arnold Berleant
