1st Edition

Neuroaesthetics

308 Pages

by Routledge

308 Pages

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336 Pages

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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 -... Read more

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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