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What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How did such processes evolve? This book brings together experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy to explore these questions. It sets the stage for a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics.
List of contents
- Section One: Foundational Issues
- 1: Francisco Mora: Neuroculture: A new cultural revolution?
- 2: William P. Seeley: Art, meaning, and aesthetics: the case for a cognitive neuroscience of art
- 3: Kirill Fayn and Paul J. Silvia: States, People, and Contexts: Three Psychological Challenges for the Neuroscience of Aesthetics
- 4: Helmut Leder, Gernot Gerger and David Brieber: Aesthetic appreciation - convergence from experimental aesthetics and physiology
- 5: Christoph Klein and Raphael Rosenberg: The Moving Eye of the Beholder. Eye-Tracking and the Perception of Paintings
- Section Two: Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Aesthetics and Art
- 6: Spas Getov and Joel S. Winston: Neural Mechanisms for Evaluating the Attractiveness of Faces
- 7: Robert Pepperell and Alumit Ishai: Indeterminate Art Works and the Human Brain
- 8: Ulrich Kirk and David Freedberg: Contextual bias and insulation against bias during esthetic rating: the implication of VMPFC and DLPFC in neural valuation
- 9: Oshin Vartanian: Neuroimaging Studies of Making Aesthetic Products
- Section Three: Cognitive Neuroscience of Dance
- 10: Emily S. Cross: Beautiful embodiment: The shaping of aesthetic preference by personal experience
- 11: Beatriz Calvo-Merino: Sensorimotor aesthetics: Neural correlates of aesthetic perception of dance
- 12: Julia F. Christensen and Corinne Jola: Moving towards ecological validity in empirical aesthetics
- Section Four: Cognitive Neuroscience of Music
- 13: Kathleen A. Corrigall and E. Glenn Schellenberg: Liking music: Genres, contextual factors, and individual differences
- 14: Moritz Lehne and Stefan Koelsch: Tension-resolution patterns as a key element of aesthetic experience: psychological principles and underlying brain mechanisms
- 15: Elvira Brattico: From Pleasure to Liking and Back: Bottom-up and Top-down Neural Routes to the Aesthetic Enjoyment of Music
- 16: Marcus T. Pearce: Effects of expertise on the cognitive and neural processes involved in musical appreciation
- Section Five: Neuropsychology of Art and Aesthetics
- 17: Anjan Chatterjee: The Neuropsychology of Visual Art
- 18: Indre Viskontas and Suzee Lee: The Creation of Art in the Setting of Dementia
- 19: Dahlia W. Zaidel: Hemispheric Specialization, Art, and Aesthetics
- Section Six: The Evolution of Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain
- 20: Gesche Westphal-Fitch and W. Tecumseh Fitch: Towards a comparative approach to empirical aesthetics
- 21: Camilo J. Cela-Conde and Francisco Ayala: Art and Brain Coevolution
- 22: Luigi F. Agnati, Diego Guidolin, and Kjell Fuxe: Art as a human "instinct-like " behaviour emerging from the exaptation of the communication processes
- Section Seven: Integrative Approaches
- 23: Edmund T. Rolls: Neurobiological foundations of art and aesthetics
- 24: Alexander J. Huston and Joseph P. Huston: Aesthetic evaluation of art: a formal approach
- 25: Barbara G. Goodrich: Tempos of Eternity: Music, Volition, and Playing with Time
About the author
Joseph P. Huston is Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. Joseph has published more than 400 books and scientific articles in areas of behavioral neurosciences with a focus on brain mechanisms of addiction, memory, and reward. He is chief editor of the journals Behavioural Brain Research and Reviews in the Neurosciences, and the book series Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience.
Marcos Nadal is Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. His main research focuses on the evolution, neural correlates, and function of cognitive and affective processes involved in aesthetic preference and art appreciation, as well as moral judgment and metaphoric language.
Francisco Mora is Professor of Human Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. He has written numerous articles for scientific journals including Science and Nature and several books, among them The Hot Brain and Neurocultura.
Luigi F. Agnati is Professor of Human Physiology at the University of Modena, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, where he received the Honoris Causa Degree in Medicine. He has published more than 620 papers in refereed international journals and seven textbooks.
Camilo J. Cela-Conde is Emeritus Professor of the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. His publications include On Genes, Gods and Tyrants, Human Evolution:Trails from the Past (with Francisco J. Ayala) and Processes in Human Evolution: The Journey from Early Hominins to Neandertals and Modern Humans (with Francisco J. Ayala).
Summary
What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How did such processes evolve? This book brings together experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy to explore these questions. It sets the stage for a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics.
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Written by the leading researchers in the fields of psychology, neurophysiology, neuroimaging, aesthetics, and philosophy, this book would serve the needs of anyone from graduate students to well-informed and practicing researchers in various disciplines. It is indeed a real tribute to editors and contributors in bringing neuroscience terminology closer to a wider audience.
