Neuroscience of aesthetics

© 2016 New York Academy of Sciences..

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.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:1369

Enthalten in:

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1369(2016), 1 vom: 01. Apr., Seite 172-94

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chatterjee, Anjan [VerfasserIn]
Vartanian, Oshin [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Aesthetics
Art
Beauty
Context
Journal Article
Preference
Review

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 24.07.2017

Date Revised 23.04.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/nyas.13035

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM259009725