Brain and Aesthetic Attitude: How to Integrate "Old" and "New" Aesthetics
At present, various efforts are being put forward to naturalize aesthetics. One of the most controversial disciplines of aesthetics is neuroaesthetics. The first applications of neuroimaging of the aesthetic experience of paintings occurred ten years ago. Over this decade, neuroscientific finding...
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| description | At present, various efforts are being put forward to naturalize aesthetics. One of the most controversial disciplines of aesthetics is neuroaesthetics. The first applications of neuroimaging of the aesthetic experience of paintings occurred ten years ago. Over this decade, neuroscientific findings have determined three common centers of visual aesthetic experience: top-down processing; reward and evaluation; and cortical sensory processing. Undoubtedly, these common centers require better identification and further investigation. However, the experimental data currently available make it possible to falsify or corroborate traditional philosophical theories of aesthetic perception and evaluation. Within an integrated approach to aesthetics, this selective function might constitute a future role for neuroaesthetics in humanities research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7dc1ec1a9fb54bbcaa33c30389635e692022-12-21T21:55:24ZengContemporary Aesthetics, Inc.Contemporary Aesthetics1932-84781932-84782014-01-0112Brain and Aesthetic Attitude: How to Integrate "Old" and "New" Aesthetics Gianluca ConsoliAt present, various efforts are being put forward to naturalize aesthetics. One of the most controversial disciplines of aesthetics is neuroaesthetics. The first applications of neuroimaging of the aesthetic experience of paintings occurred ten years ago. Over this decade, neuroscientific findings have determined three common centers of visual aesthetic experience: top-down processing; reward and evaluation; and cortical sensory processing. Undoubtedly, these common centers require better identification and further investigation. However, the experimental data currently available make it possible to falsify or corroborate traditional philosophical theories of aesthetic perception and evaluation. Within an integrated approach to aesthetics, this selective function might constitute a future role for neuroaesthetics in humanities research.http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=709evaluationnaturalismneuroimagingrewardsensory processingtop-down processing |
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| title | Brain and Aesthetic Attitude: How to Integrate "Old" and "New" Aesthetics |
| title_full | Brain and Aesthetic Attitude: How to Integrate "Old" and "New" Aesthetics |
| title_fullStr | Brain and Aesthetic Attitude: How to Integrate "Old" and "New" Aesthetics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Brain and Aesthetic Attitude: How to Integrate "Old" and "New" Aesthetics |
| title_short | Brain and Aesthetic Attitude: How to Integrate "Old" and "New" Aesthetics |
| title_sort | brain and aesthetic attitude how to integrate old and new aesthetics |
| topic | evaluation naturalism neuroimaging reward sensory processing top-down processing |
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