The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art, Chatterjee MD Anjan

Автор: de Waal Frans
Название: Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
ISBN: 0691169160 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691169163
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It`s the animal in us," we often hear when we`ve been bad. But why not when we`re good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity`s most valued traits: morality. In this provocative book, renowned primato

Автор: Starr G. Gabrielle
Название: Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
ISBN: 0262527448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262527446
Издательство: MIT Press
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A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry.

In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, Starr shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic and changing features of aesthetic life, the relationships among the arts, and how individual differences in aesthetic judgment shape the varieties of aesthetic experience.

Starr, a scholar of the humanities and a researcher in the neuroscience of aesthetics, proposes that aesthetic experience relies on a distributed neural architecture -- a set of brain areas involved in emotion, perception, imagery, memory, and language. More important, it emerges from networked interactions, intricately connected and coordinated brain systems that together form a flexible architecture enabling us to develop new arts and to see the world around us differently. Focusing on the "sister arts" of poetry, painting, and music, Starr builds and tests a neural model of aesthetic experience valid across all the arts. Asking why works that address different senses using different means seem to produce the same set of feelings, she examines particular works of art in a range of media, including a poem by Keats, a painting by van Gogh, a sculpture by Bernini, and Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. Starr's innovative, interdisciplinary analysis is true to the complexities of both the physical instantiation of aesthetics and the realities of artistic representation.

Автор: Theresa Schilhab; Frederik Stjernfelt; Terrence De
Название: The Symbolic Species Evolved
ISBN: 9400795998 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400795990
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Based on the Symbolic Species Conferences I, II, which took place in 2006, 2007, this volume offers contributions from a wide variety of scholars. Topics include emergence in evolution, the origin of language, the semiotic `missing link`, Peirce`s semiotics in evolution and biology, and more.