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Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (Hardcover)
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Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (Hardcover)
Series: Foundations and Frontiers in Aesthetics Series
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In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting
approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts,
approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or
related to biology and answering new questions with new methods and
theories. All known societies produce and enjoy arts such as
literature, music and visual decoration or depiction. Judging from
prehistoric archaeological evidence, this arose very early in human
development. Furthermore, Darwin was explicit in attributing
aesthetic sensitivity to lower animals. These considerations lead
us to wonder whether the arts might not be evolutionarily based.
Although such an evolutionary basis is not obvious on the face of
it, the idea has recently elicited considerable attention. The book
begins with a consideration of ten theories on the evolutionary
function of specific arts such as music and literature. The theory
of evolution was first drawn up in biology, but evolution is not
confined to biology: genuinely evolutionary theories of
sociocultural change can be formulated. That they need to be
formulated is shown in several chapters that discuss regular trends
in literature and scientific writings. Psychologists have recently
rediscovered the obvious fact that thought and perception occur in
the brain, so cognitive science moves ever closer to neuroscience.
Several chapters give overviews of neurocognitive and neural
network approaches to creativity and aesthetic appreciation. The
book concludes with two exciting describing brain-scan research on
what happens in the brain during creativity and presenting a close
examination of the relationship between genetically transmitted
mental disorder and creativity.
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