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Neuroaesthetics (Hardcover)
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Neuroaesthetics (Hardcover)
Series: Foundations and Frontiers in Aesthetics Series
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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 - 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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