{"product_id":"brain-beauty-and-art-9780197513620","title":"Brain Beauty and Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAesthetics has long been the preserve of philosophy, art history, and the creative arts but, more recently, the fields of psychology and neuroscience have entered the discussion, and the field of neuroaesthetics has been born.In Brain, Beauty, and Art, leading scholars in this nascent field reflect on the promise of neuroaesthetics to enrich our understanding of this universal yet diverse facet of human experience. The volume consists of essays from foundational researchers whose empirical work launched the field. Each essay is anchored to an original, peer-reviewed paper from the short history of this new and burgeoning subdiscipline of cognitive neuroscience. Authors of each essay were asked three questions: 1) What motivated the original paper? 2) What were the main findings or theoretical claims made? and, 3) How do those findings or claims fit with the current state and anticipated near future of neuroaesthetics? Together, these essays establish the territory and current boundaries of neuroaesthetics and identify its most promising future directions. Topics include models of neuroaesthetics, and discussions of beauty, art, dance, music, literature, and architecture. Brain, Beauty, and Art will inform and stimulate anyone with an abiding interest in why it is that, across time and culture, we respond to beauty, engage with art, and are affected by music and architecture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor anyone wishing to learn about the basic constructs and findings of the new field of experimental neuroaesthetics, this is a must-read book and one destined to advance the field. Each chapter is a gem-a brief and highly readable commentary on a pioneering article in which the author(s) of the article explain their motivating hypotheses and reflect on where the field was then, where it is going, and where it should be going. * Ellen Winner, Professor Emerita, Boston College, and author of How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration (OUP, 2019) and An Uneasy Guest in the Schoolhouse: Art Education from Colonial Times to a Promising Future (OUP, 2022) *\u003cbr\u003eA landmark publication for a burgeoning, new discipline, Brain, Beauty, and Art offers much of interest for the scholar, scientist, and general reader on a subject of enduring fascination to us all. Edited by pioneers in the field of neuroaesthetics, this comprehensive volume brings together the most important and consequential research while also providing a compelling account of why the love of beauty in all of the forms is an essential part of what it means to be human. * Daniel H Weiss, President and CEO, The Metropolitan Museum of Art *\u003cbr\u003eDr. Chatterjee is a pioneer in neuroaesthetics - not only because of his enduring and cutting-edge body of academic research, but also because of his ability to bring together experts from disparate fields, build on their own findings and insights, and weave a cohesive and compelling narrative on the field. His latest book, Brain, Beauty, and Art, offers the world's most comprehensive view on this burgeoning field, including what it is, how it affects human behavior, and why it matters. After reading his book, I'm sure you'll agree it matters now more than ever! * Pauline Brown, Former Chair of LVMH North America \u0026amp; Author of Aesthetic Intelligence *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword.  Where have we been and where are now? A Chatterjee, E Cardlillo     Frameworks  1. An early framework for a cognitive neuroscience of visual aesthetics. A Chatterjee  2. Bringing it all together: neurological and neuroimaging evidence of the neural underpinnings of visual aesthetic. M Nadal, CJ Cela-Conde  3. But, what actually happens when we engage with art? M Pelowski, H Leder  4. Naturalizing aesthetics. Steven Brown  5. Moving towards emotions in the aesthetic experience. C Di Dio and V Gallese  6. The aesthetic triad. O Vartanian and A Chatterjee  7. How neuroimaging is transforming our understanding of aesthetic taste. M Skov  8. The cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience. 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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