Search results for "empirical aesthetics"
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QUALI FENOMENI PER L’ESTETICA EMPIRICA?
2020
Empirical Aesthetics profits from the research in Cognitive Neurosciences and the target article collects multiple evidence on the neurobiological basis of art and aesthetic experience in order to submit that psychological models give a new definition of the field of Psychology of Arts, if they integrate this empirical evidence with the perceptual, emotional and cognitive capacities, which are assumed to give rise to art and aesthetic experience. The opinion article raises questions about the variety of phenomena in the field, the common methodology to experimental research on cognition and aesthetics, the manifold perceptual attributes which support art and aesthetic cognition, the potenti…
The origins of the aesthetic enjoyment of music - A review of the literature
2009
Listeners attribute a positive or negative value to music. This aesthetic experience is known to be observable over the individuals’ entire life span, from early childhood to old age, and in every culture. It is then often concluded that such an aesthetic experience constitutes part of the human nature, having an important biological foundation. This assumption leads to the question of how aesthetic experience of music originated in the biological evolution. In this paper, we will explore this question in the light of evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and systems neuroscience. After reviewing the existing proposals, we conclude that the explanation of the origin of aesthetic expe…