Aesthetic science : connecting minds, brains, and experience / edited by Arthur P. Shimamura and Stephen E. Palmer.

Date:
[2012], ©2012
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New York : Oxford University Press, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xii, 408 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Toward a science of aesthetics : ideas & issues / Arthur P. Shimamura -- The philosophy of art and aesthetics, psychology, and neuroscience : studies in literature, visual arts, and music / Noel Carroll, Margaret Moore, & William P. Seeley -- Aesthetic theory and aesthetic science : prospects for integration / Vincent Bergeron & Dominic McIver Lopes -- Triangulating aesthetic experience / Murray Smith -- Art and the anthropologists / Gregory Currie -- Aesthetic science and artistic knowledge / Blake Gopnik -- Empirical investigation of an aesthetic experience with art / Paul J. Locher -- Hidden knowledge in aesthetic judgments : preferences for colors and spatial compositions / Stephen E. Palmer, Karen B. Schloss, & Jonathan S. Gardner -- Processing fluency, aesthetic pleasure, and culturally shared taste / Rolf Reber -- Human emotions and aesthetic experience / Paul J. Silvia -- Artistic development : the three essential spheres / Kimberly M. Sheridan & Howard Gardner -- Neuroaesthetics : growing pains of a new discipline / Anjan Chatterjee -- The modularity of aesthetic processing and perception in the human brain : functional neuroimaging studies of neuroaesthetics / Ulrich Kirk -- Art compositions elicit distributed activation in the human brain / Alumit Ishai -- A cognitive & behavioral neurological approach to aesthetics / Zachary A. Miller & Bruce L. Miller -- Neurology of visual aesthetics : Indian nymphs, modern art, and sexy beaks / V.S. Ramachandran & Elizabeth Seckel.

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  • 9780199732142
  • 0199732140