Art reaches within: aesthetic experience, the self and the default mode network

In a task of rating images of artworks in an fMRI scanner, regions in the medial prefrontal cortex that are known to be part of the default mode network (DMN) were positively activated on the highest-rated trials. This is surprising given the DMN's original characterization as the set of bra...

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Main Authors: Edward A Vessel, G Gabrielle Starr, Nava eRubin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00258/full