Brain, Beauty, and Art

Dr. 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!

Auteur
Anjan Chatterjee is a Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture and the founding Director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. He wrote The Aesthetic Brain: How we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art and co-edited: Neuroethics in Practice: mind, medicine, and society, and The Roots of Cognitive Neuroscience: behavioral neurology and neuropsychology. He has received the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology and the Rudolph Arnheim Prize for contribution to Psychology and the Arts. He is or has been in the editorial board of several journals focused in neuroscience, neurology, ethics, and aesthetics. He is a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Neuroethics Society, the past President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, and the past President of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society Eileen Cardillo, DPhil is a cognitive neuroscientist and Associate Director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. She received her B.S. in Biological Psychology at the College of William & Mary and her doctorate in Experimental Psychology while a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Before joining the PCfN, Eileen completed her postdoctoral training at the University of California San Diego and the University of Pennsylvania, with an emphasis on neuropsychological studies of cognition. Her research interests include metaphor, contemplative practice, and the cognitive, affective, and health impacts of aesthetic experiences

Texte du rabat

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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

• Foreword. 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 and 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 and 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? A Chatterjee, E Cardlillo