The Arts and the Brain: Psychology and Physiology beyond Pleasure, Volume 237, combines the work of an excellent group of experts who explain evidence on the neural and biobehavioral science of the arts. Topics covered include the emergence of early art and the evolution of human culture, the interaction between cultural and biological evolutionary processes in generating artistic creation, the nature of the aesthetic experience of art, the arts as a multisensory experience, new insights from the neuroscience of dance, a systematic review of the biological impact of music, and more.

* Fosters a new consensus by articulating a balanced and integrative view to show the relevance of the empirical study of intentional interaction * Connects expression with moral psychology to give a detailed and perspicuous presentation of the second person interaction * A unique new resource for academics and students of social cognition, social and cognitive neuroscience, the cognitive sciences, philosophy, and metaphysics

* Fosters a new consensus by articulating a balanced and integrative view to show the relevance of the empirical study of intentional interaction * Connects expression with moral psychology to give a detailed and perspicuous presentation of the second person interaction * A unique new resource for academics and students of social cognition, social and cognitive neuroscience, the cognitive sciences, philosophy, and metaphysics