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Title Brain, beauty, & art : essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus / edited by Anjan Chatterjee and Eileen R. Cardillo
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 257 pages) : illustrations
Contents Frameworks -- Beauty -- Art -- Music -- Dance -- Architecture
Summary "When I first started to think about the neural basis of aesthetic experiences in the late 1990s, little was written on the topic. Unlike other domains of psychology, such as attention, or perception, or memory, aesthetics had not gained purchase in cognitive neuroscience. In fact, aesthetics was barely visible in psychology itself despite being rooted in Fechner's writings over a hundred years earlier. In 1999, papers by Zeki (1999) and Ramachandran and Hirstein (1999) were initial forays into scientific aesthetics by established neuroscientists. While undeniably important as initial markers for the field, their papers were but a first step. They were speculative and did not offer a framework for a systematic research program. Scholars in the humanities latched on to these initial papers, in ways that were detrimental to the field. For the most part, they ignored subsequent careful experimental work done by neuroscientists, as if neuroaesthetics began and ended in 1999 (Chatterjee, 2011). Missing in early discussions was a basic question: what would a framework that could guide experimental progress in the neuroscience of aesthetics entail?"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 02, 2022)
Subject Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects
Arts -- Psychological aspects
Aesthetics -- Psychological aspects
Arts -- Psychological aspects
Nanotecnologia.
Form Electronic book
Author Chatterjee, Anjan, editor.
Cardillo, Eileen R., editor.
LC no. 2021032377
ISBN 9780197513651
0197513654
9780197513644
0197513646
9780197513637
0197513638
Other Titles Brain, beauty, and art