The study of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of aesthetic appreciation by means of neuroimaging techniques has yielded a wealth of fascinating information. Although the results of these studies have been somewhat divergent, here we provide an integrative view of the early approaches, which identified some of the core mechanisms involved in aesthetic preference. Then, a number of more spe...

Abstract Structural art should not be marginalised as an integral part of structural design. By reviewing historical understandings art, this article discusses the ambiguous and neglected perspective on architectural design human perception dimensions, concentrating attention question aesthetic perception. Based significant changes in how is perceived due to recent neuroaesthetics research, int...

Had we been there, we might have noticed that the people entering the cave, on the cliff overlooking the ocean, were carrying several objects. We might have given in to our curiosity, and quietly followed them in. Once inside, we would have seen them laboriously rubbing reddish rocks against shiny gray slabs of stone, producing a thin red powder. We would also have noticed them using sharp ston...

Neuroscience has recently contributed a lot to the understanding of aesthetic experience features. Science, art and creativity are not really distinctively different entities. The parallelism seen between the properties of art and organizational principals of the brain has been highlighted through neuroaesthetic studies. Aesthetic as a subjective experience has comprehensively been studies thro...

A long tradition of research including classical rhetoric, esthetics and poetics theory, formalism and structuralism, as well as current perspectives in (neuro)cognitive poetics has investigated structural and functional aspects of literature reception. Despite a wealth of literature published in specialized journals like Poetics, however, still little is known about how the brain processes and...

This paper aims to explore the body aesthetic myth in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. Body is a rich object of inquiry discussion aesthetics art and literature. In case this fictional work, problem seen Pecola, protagonist novel, who feels herself ugly desires for blue eyes. has adopted concepts Immanuel Kant as an approach novel. differentiates pleasure beautiful from other pleasures, by claim...

The paper focuses on the features of emotional perception ofscreen-displayed videos and images, when neural response viewer is included into subject field neuroaesthetics—an interdisciplinary sphere knowledge at intersection art studies, philosophy, psychology perception, neuroscience. study describes innovative methods neuroscientific research for studying reception a “screen product.” One ofs...