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Why do we seek out and even cherish sorrow and fear from art when we go out of our way to avoid these very emotions in real life?  How do we decide what is good art? Do aesthetic judgments have any objective truth value?  Why do we devalue fakes even if we -- indeed, even the experts--- can''t tell them apart from originals?  Does fiction enhance our empathy and understanding of others? Is art-making therapeutic? Others are common sense questions that laypersons wonder about. Examples include: Does learning to play music raise a child''s IQ?  Is modern art something my kid could do?  Is talent a matter of nature or nurture? This book examines puzzles about the arts wherever their provenance - as long as there is empirical research using the methods of social science (interviews, experimentation, data collection, statistical analysis) that can shed light on these questions. The examined research reveals how ordinary people think about these questions, and why they think the way they do - an inquiry referred to as intuitive aesthetics. The book shows how psychological research on the arts has shed light on and often offered surprising answers to such questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis shift from philosophical analysis to a robust empirical approach of experiment and observation is the starting point of this book, which is a fascinating account of social scientists' investigations of art through interviews, experiments, data collection, and statistical analysis. Winner touches on a variety of topics ranging from music and emotion, fiction and empathy, the Mozart effect, and perfect fakes and forgeries, to Hockney's theory of optical aids, effort bias, artistic prodigies, deliberate practice and talent, and our curious enjoyment of negative emotions. 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This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview from previous edition So many of the questions that define us as a culture have been raised through and by the art of recent decades, that without coming to terms with our art, we can scarcely understand ourselves. Cynthia Freeland has written a very smart book, in which high philosophical intelligence is applied to difficult questions raised by real works of art. It immediately situates the reader where thought and action meet, and since the issues are inescapable, it should be required reading for everyone.   'I know of no work that moves so swiftly and with so sure a footing through the battle zones of art and society today.' * Arthur C. 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M Nadal and M Pearce    Beauty  9. Facial beauty and the medial orbitofrontal cortex. JP O'Doherty,  RJ. Dolan   10. Beautiful people in the brain of the beholder. A Chatterjee  11. The mark of villainy: the connection between appearance and perceived morality. F Hartung  12. A quest for beauty. T Jacobsen   13. Scene preferences, aesthetic appeal and curiosity: revisiting the neurobiology of the infovore. EA Vessel, X Yue, I Biederman  14. Kinds of beauty and the prefrontal cortex. T Pegors  15. Expertise and aesthetic liking. M Skov \u0026amp; U Kirk  16. Social meaning brings beauty: neural response to the beauty of abstract Chinese characters. X He and W Zhang    Art  17. The contributions of emotion and reward to aesthetic judgment of visual art. O Vartanian  18. Embodiment and the aesthetic experience of images. V Gallese, D Freedberg, M Alessandra Umiltà  19. The role of left dorsolateral prefrontal cortices in aesthetic valuation. E Munar \u0026amp; CJ Cela-Conde  20. The role of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in aesthetic appreciation. M Nadal, Z Cattaneo, and CJ Cela-Conde   21. Is artistic composition in abstract art detected automatically? C Menzel, G Kovács, GU Hayn-Leichsenring, C Redies  22. The contribution of visual area V5 to the perception of implied motion in art and its appreciation. M Nadal and Z Cattaneo  23. Art Is Its own reward. S Lacey, K Sathian  24. Imaging the subjective. EA Vessel, GG Starr  25. Cultural neuroaesthetics of delicate sadness induced by Noh masks. N Osaka   26. Towards a computational understanding of neuroaesthetics. K Iigaya and JP O'Doherty  27. Artists, artworks, aesthetics, cognition. WP Seeley  28. Aesthetic liking is not only driven by object properties, but also by your expectations. M Skov, U Kirk  29. Finding mutual interest between neuroscience and aesthetics: a brush with reality? AJ Parker  30. What can we learn about art from people with neurological disease? A Chatterjee    Music  31. Chills, Bets, And Dopamine: a journey Into music reward. L Ferreri, J Riba, R Zatorre, A Rodriguez-Fornells  32. Why does music evoke strong emotions?  Testing the endogenous opioid hypothesis. DJ Levitin and LA Fleming  33. Music in all its beauty: adopting the naturalistic paradigm to uncover brain processes during the aesthetic musical experience. E Brattico and V Alluri   34. Investigating musical emotions in people with unilateral brain damage. AM Belfi, A Pralus, C Hirel, D Tranel, B Tillmann*,  A Caclin*     Language and Literature  35. The neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading 10 years after. AM  Jacobs  36. The power of poetry. E Wassiliwizky, W Menninghaus  37. Pictograph portrays what it is: neural response to the beauty of concrete Chinese characters. X He and W Zhang    Dance  38. Movement, synchronization, and partnering in dance. S Brown  39. Dance, expertise and sensorimotor aesthetics. B Calvo-Merino  40. An eye for the impossible: exploring the attraction of physically impressive dance movements. ES Cross  41. The mind, the brain and the moving body: dance as a topic in cognitive neuroscience. B Blaesing, B Calvo-Merino  42. Training effects on affective perception of body movements. LP Kirsch, ES Cross    Architecture  43. The neuroaesthetics of architecture. O Vartanian  44. Architectural styles as subordinate scene categories. DB Walther  45. Architectural affordances: linking action, perception, and cognition. Z Djebbara, K Gramann  46. Architectural design and the mind. A Coburn    Afterword. Where are we now and where are we going? 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