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Humans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among other means, constitutes a fundamental aspect of our species' biological and cultural heritage. Art and aesthetics, therefore, contribute to our species identity and distinguish it from its living and extinct relatives. Science is faced with the challenge of explaining the natural foundations of such a unique trait, and the way cultural processes nurture it into magnificent expressions, historically and ethnically unique. How does the human brain bring about these sorts of behaviors? What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How does training modulate these processes? How are they impaired by brain lesions and neurodegenerative diseases? How did such neural underpinnings evolve? Are humans the only species capable of aesthetic appreciation, or are other species endowed with the rudiments of this capacity? This volume brings together the work on such questions by leading experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy. It sets the stage for a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics, understood in the broadest possible terms. With sections on visual art, dance, music, neuropsychology, and evolution, the breadth of this volume's scope reflects the richness and variety of topics and methods currently used today by scientists to understand the way our brain endows us with the faculty to produce and appreciate art and aesthetics.
Table 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
