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Alexander Kranjec - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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conceptual art made simple for Neuroaesthetics
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015Co-Authors: Alexander KranjecAbstract:Cognitive neuroscience and conceptual art share some interesting common ground. Both are concerned with very basic questions about meaning and objecthood. By focusing on reductionist and contrastive aspects of conceptual art, perhaps neuroscience methods can be applied to the investigation of such questions using everyday objects.
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finding meaning in Neuroaesthetics
Cognitive Science, 2015Co-Authors: Alexander Kranjec, Julia Sienkewicz, Corey Robinson, Amanda BuchheitAbstract:How might Neuroaesthetics move beyond beauty and begin to study meaning? While Neuroaesthetics is broadly concerned with the brain’s role in processing art, it has typically focused on perceptual preferences concerning the question of beauty. To cut deeper ontologically the field might consider exploring other basic kinds of meaningful categorical judgments people routinely make about artifacts, including those related to an object’s purpose and status as art. Providing a point of entry for an empirical approach, a methodology is described where participants judge objects (chairs) for higher-order qualities beyond beauty, including functionality, and art-objecthood. Results suggest that artifacts can be used for probing deeper empirical questions concerning the neural basis for aesthetic judgments and object processing. In this manner, we can begin to understand the meaning of art with respect to both its form and function.
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CogSci - Finding Meaning in Neuroaesthetics.
Cognitive Science, 2015Co-Authors: Alexander Kranjec, Julia Sienkewicz, Corey Robinson, Amanda BuchheitAbstract:How might Neuroaesthetics move beyond beauty and begin to study meaning? While Neuroaesthetics is broadly concerned with the brain’s role in processing art, it has typically focused on perceptual preferences concerning the question of beauty. To cut deeper ontologically the field might consider exploring other basic kinds of meaningful categorical judgments people routinely make about artifacts, including those related to an object’s purpose and status as art. Providing a point of entry for an empirical approach, a methodology is described where participants judge objects (chairs) for higher-order qualities beyond beauty, including functionality, and art-objecthood. Results suggest that artifacts can be used for probing deeper empirical questions concerning the neural basis for aesthetic judgments and object processing. In this manner, we can begin to understand the meaning of art with respect to both its form and function.
Marcos Nadal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Farewell to Art: Aesthetics as a Topic in Psychology and Neuroscience.
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2020Co-Authors: Martin Skov, Marcos NadalAbstract:Empirical aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics study two main issues: the valuation of sensory objects and art experience. These two issues are often treated as if they were intrinsically interrelated: R...
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Neuroaesthetics and art's diversity and universality
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2018Co-Authors: Marcos Nadal, Anjan ChatterjeeAbstract:There is a duality to art. It is enormously varied and culturally diverse, and yet it is also universal, common to all humans. Art's variability and distinctiveness seem to elude science, better equipped to account for constant or regular phenomena. We believe that art's cultural particularity can be reconciled with its biological universality. The emergence of variability and distinctiveness from common mechanisms is at the core of biological explanation; it is a basic fact of life, and a basic fact of brain function. The individual, cultural, and historical diversity of art, both in its production and its appreciation, owe to basic features of the organization and function of the human brain. Each encounter with an artwork engages flexible neural networks that are modulated by context, expectations, emotional states, goals, and experience. Because these factors change from one occasion to another, each encounter with art has its distinct flavor. Repeated encounters with art over the course of a lifetime lead people develop personal preferences for art, as the network connections become strengthened in unique ways. These flexible and adaptable networks evolved in humans as a consequence of the relaxation of genetic constraints on the development of brain regions involved in orchestrating network dynamics, enabling a greater impact of learning and experience. In sum, art is universal and common because it arises from neural systems that are common to all humans, and it is variable and diverse because those neural systems evolved to be flexible, attuned to momentary contexts and goals, and changing through a lifetime of experiences. This article is categorized under: Economics > Individual Decision-Making Cognitive Biology > Evolutionary Roots of Cognition Neuroscience > Cognition.
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Art Is not Special: An Assault on the Last Lines of Defense against the Naturalization of the Human Mind
Reviews in The Neurosciences, 2018Co-Authors: Martin Skov, Marcos NadalAbstract:The assumption that human cognition requires exceptional explanations holds strong in some domains of behavioral and brain sciences. Scientific aesthetics in general, and Neuroaesthetics in particular, abound with claims for art-specific cognitive or neural processes. This assumption fosters a conceptual structure disconnected from other fields and biases the sort of processes to be studied. More generally, assuming that art is special is to cling to the idea that some aspect of our species' mental constitution makes us unique, special, and meaningful. This assumption continues to relegate scientific aesthetics to the periphery of science and hampers a naturalized view of the human mind.
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Neuroaesthetics the cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2016Co-Authors: Marcus T Pearce, Anjan Chatterjee, Oshin Vartanian, Martin Skov, Dahlia W Zaidel, Helmut Leder, Marcos NadalAbstract:The field of Neuroaesthetics has gained in popularity in recent years but also attracted criticism from the perspectives both of the humanities and the sciences. In an effort to consolidate researc...
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Neuroaesthetics: themes from the past, current issues, and challenges for the future
Rendiconti Lincei, 2012Co-Authors: Marcos Nadal, Albert Flexas, Álex Gálvez, Camilo José Cela-condeAbstract:Neuroaesthetics is a growing field of research concerned with the biological foundations of aesthetic experiences and artistic activities. In this paper we trace the major milestones in the history of Neuroaesthetics, from British Empiricism to current neuroimaging studies, emphasizing the continuity of certain basic assumptions and controversies. Thereafter we turn to an issue that has received attention only recently: differences between men and women in the neural underpinnings of aesthetic preference. We argue that the combination of neuroimaging techniques and evolutionary reasoning affords the possibility of an integral understanding of the biological foundations of aesthetic experiences. Finally, we summarize some challenges Neuroaesthetics will have to face in the future.
Anjan Chatterjee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Aesthetic Responses to Architecture
The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics, 2019Co-Authors: Alexander Coburn, Anjan ChatterjeeAbstract:Discussions of architectural beauty have largely taken place outside of empirical science. Over the past decade, however, Neuroaesthetics has generated new insights into the neurobiological underpinnings of beauty and art. Now, scientists are also beginning to probe the intersection of neuroscience and architecture. The emerging field of neuroarchitecture aims to investigate the neural and psychological implications of architectural design and to inspire the construction of built environments that support psychological experiences and wellbeing. This chapter explores how neuroarchitecture might develop into an experimental science, drawing lessons from recent developments in Neuroaesthetics along the way. An initial neural framework is outlined, the aesthetic triad, in order to contextualize past neuroscientific research on the built environment and to motivate future hypothesis-testing studies. Finally, the potential benefits and limitations of this area of research are discussed.
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Dynamics of aesthetic experience are reflected in the default-mode network
NeuroImage, 2018Co-Authors: Amy M. Belfi, Anjan Chatterjee, Helmut Leder, Edward A. Vessel, Aenne A. Brielmann, Ayse Ilkay Isik, Denis G. Pelli, G. Gabrielle StarrAbstract:Abstract Neuroaesthetics is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of research that aims to understand the neural substrates of aesthetic experience: While understanding aesthetic experience has been an objective of philosophers for centuries, it has only more recently been embraced by neuroscientists. Recent work in Neuroaesthetics has revealed that aesthetic experience with static visual art engages visual, reward and default-mode networks. Very little is known about the temporal dynamics of these networks during aesthetic appreciation. Previous behavioral and brain imaging research suggests that critical aspects of aesthetic experience have slow dynamics, taking more than a few seconds, making them amenable to study with fMRI. Here, we identified key aspects of the dynamics of aesthetic experience while viewing art for various durations. In the first few seconds following image onset, activity in the DMN (and high-level visual and reward regions) was greater for very pleasing images; in the DMN this activity counteracted a suppressive effect that grew longer and deeper with increasing image duration. In addition, for very pleasing art, the DMN response returned to baseline in a manner time-locked to image offset. Conversely, for non-pleasing art, the timing of this return to baseline was inconsistent. This differential response in the DMN may therefore reflect the internal dynamics of the participant's state: The participant disengages from art-related processing and returns to stimulus-independent thought. These dynamics suggest that the DMN tracks the internal state of a participant during aesthetic experience.
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Neuroaesthetics and art's diversity and universality
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2018Co-Authors: Marcos Nadal, Anjan ChatterjeeAbstract:There is a duality to art. It is enormously varied and culturally diverse, and yet it is also universal, common to all humans. Art's variability and distinctiveness seem to elude science, better equipped to account for constant or regular phenomena. We believe that art's cultural particularity can be reconciled with its biological universality. The emergence of variability and distinctiveness from common mechanisms is at the core of biological explanation; it is a basic fact of life, and a basic fact of brain function. The individual, cultural, and historical diversity of art, both in its production and its appreciation, owe to basic features of the organization and function of the human brain. Each encounter with an artwork engages flexible neural networks that are modulated by context, expectations, emotional states, goals, and experience. Because these factors change from one occasion to another, each encounter with art has its distinct flavor. Repeated encounters with art over the course of a lifetime lead people develop personal preferences for art, as the network connections become strengthened in unique ways. These flexible and adaptable networks evolved in humans as a consequence of the relaxation of genetic constraints on the development of brain regions involved in orchestrating network dynamics, enabling a greater impact of learning and experience. In sum, art is universal and common because it arises from neural systems that are common to all humans, and it is variable and diverse because those neural systems evolved to be flexible, attuned to momentary contexts and goals, and changing through a lifetime of experiences. This article is categorized under: Economics > Individual Decision-Making Cognitive Biology > Evolutionary Roots of Cognition Neuroscience > Cognition.
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Neuroscience of aesthetics.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2016Co-Authors: Anjan Chatterjee, Oshin VartanianAbstract:Aesthetic evaluations are appraisals that influence choices in important domains of human activity, including mate selection, consumer behavior, art appreciation, and possibly even moral judgment. The nascent field of Neuroaesthetics is advancing our understanding of the role of aesthetic evaluations by examining their biological bases. Here, we conduct a selective review of the literature on Neuroaesthetics to demonstrate that aesthetic experiences likely emerge from the interaction between emotion–valuation, sensory–motor, and meaning–knowledge neural systems. This tripartite model can in turn be evoked to explain phenomena central to aesthetics, such as context effects on preferences. Indeed, context-dependent appraisals that focus on objects rather than on outcomes could be an important factor distinguishing aesthetic experiences from other kinds of evaluations.
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Neuroaesthetics the cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2016Co-Authors: Marcus T Pearce, Anjan Chatterjee, Oshin Vartanian, Martin Skov, Dahlia W Zaidel, Helmut Leder, Marcos NadalAbstract:The field of Neuroaesthetics has gained in popularity in recent years but also attracted criticism from the perspectives both of the humanities and the sciences. In an effort to consolidate researc...
Marcus T Pearce - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Neuroaesthetics the cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2016Co-Authors: Marcus T Pearce, Anjan Chatterjee, Oshin Vartanian, Martin Skov, Dahlia W Zaidel, Helmut Leder, Marcos NadalAbstract:The field of Neuroaesthetics has gained in popularity in recent years but also attracted criticism from the perspectives both of the humanities and the sciences. In an effort to consolidate researc...
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the Neuroaesthetics of music
Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, 2013Co-Authors: Elvira Brattico, Marcus T PearceAbstract:Abstractsof HBM10, 16th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human BrainMapping, Barcelona, June 6–10, 2010 .Brattico, E., Alluri, V., Bogert, B., Jacobsen, T., Vartiainen, N., Nieminen,S.,...Tervaniemi, M. (2011). A functional MRI study of happy and sademotions in music with and without lyrics. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 308. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00308Brattico, E., Brattico, P., & Jacobsen, T. (2009–2010). The origins of theaestheticenjoymentofmusic-Areviewoftheliterature. MusicaeScientiae,Special issue 2009–2010, 15–31. doi:10.1177/1029864909013002031Brattico, E., Bogert, B., & Jacobsen, T. (in press). Towards a neuralchronometry for the aesthetic experience of music. Frontiers in Psychol-ogy .Brattico, E., Jacobsen, T., De Baene, W., Glerean, E., & Tervaniemi, M.(2010). Cognitive vs. affective listening modes and judgments of music:An ERP study. Biological Psychology, 85, 393–409. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.08.014Brattico, E., Naatanen, R., Verma, T., Valimaki, V., & Tervaniemi, M.(2000, August).
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the copenhagen Neuroaesthetics conference prospects and pitfalls for an emerging field
Brain and Cognition, 2011Co-Authors: Marcos Nadal, Marcus T PearceAbstract:Neuroaesthetics is a young field of research concerned primarily with the neural basis of cognitive and affective processes engaged when an individual takes an aesthetic or artistic approach towards a work of art, a non-artistic object or a natural phenomenon. In September 2009, the Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics Conference brought together leading researchers in the field to present and discuss current advances. We summarize some of the principal themes of the conference, placing Neuroaesthetics in a historical context and discussing its scope and relation to other disciplines. We also identify what we believe to be the key outstanding questions, the main pitfalls and challenges faced by the field, and some promising avenues for future research.
Helmut Leder - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Dynamics of aesthetic experience are reflected in the default-mode network
NeuroImage, 2018Co-Authors: Amy M. Belfi, Anjan Chatterjee, Helmut Leder, Edward A. Vessel, Aenne A. Brielmann, Ayse Ilkay Isik, Denis G. Pelli, G. Gabrielle StarrAbstract:Abstract Neuroaesthetics is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of research that aims to understand the neural substrates of aesthetic experience: While understanding aesthetic experience has been an objective of philosophers for centuries, it has only more recently been embraced by neuroscientists. Recent work in Neuroaesthetics has revealed that aesthetic experience with static visual art engages visual, reward and default-mode networks. Very little is known about the temporal dynamics of these networks during aesthetic appreciation. Previous behavioral and brain imaging research suggests that critical aspects of aesthetic experience have slow dynamics, taking more than a few seconds, making them amenable to study with fMRI. Here, we identified key aspects of the dynamics of aesthetic experience while viewing art for various durations. In the first few seconds following image onset, activity in the DMN (and high-level visual and reward regions) was greater for very pleasing images; in the DMN this activity counteracted a suppressive effect that grew longer and deeper with increasing image duration. In addition, for very pleasing art, the DMN response returned to baseline in a manner time-locked to image offset. Conversely, for non-pleasing art, the timing of this return to baseline was inconsistent. This differential response in the DMN may therefore reflect the internal dynamics of the participant's state: The participant disengages from art-related processing and returns to stimulus-independent thought. These dynamics suggest that the DMN tracks the internal state of a participant during aesthetic experience.
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Neuroaesthetics the cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2016Co-Authors: Marcus T Pearce, Anjan Chatterjee, Oshin Vartanian, Martin Skov, Dahlia W Zaidel, Helmut Leder, Marcos NadalAbstract:The field of Neuroaesthetics has gained in popularity in recent years but also attracted criticism from the perspectives both of the humanities and the sciences. In an effort to consolidate researc...
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next steps in Neuroaesthetics which processes and processing stages to study
Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, 2013Co-Authors: Helmut LederAbstract:Aesthetic experiences arise from the interaction among several cognitive and emotional processes. By positing a number of distinctive processing stages, information-processing models have served as fruitful frames for empirical research on the perception of art and aesthetic experiences in general. Such theoretically founded proposals have contributed, among other issues, to our understanding of stylerelated processing, the time course of early processes, and the relevance of prior experience, including massive familiarization, emotional states, and expertise. Here we examine the implications of recent empirical research for the components of an information-processing model of aesthetic experiences (Leder, Belke, Oeberst & Augustin, 2004). On the one hand, our analysis suggests that the model underestimated the complexity and relevance of emotional processes involved in experiencing art. On the other hand, it has led to new insights into the temporal processes underlying the aesthetic experience and helped clarify issues that will be relevant for future research in experimental aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics.