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  1. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Author: Chatterjee, Anjan
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and... more

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    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all"--

     
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    ISBN: 9780199811809; 0199811806; 9780190262013
    RVK Categories: CC 5680 ; CC 6900
    Subjects: Aesthetics / Psychological aspects; Genetic psychology; Brain / Evolution; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; Kunst; Psychologie; Ästhetik; Ästhetische Wahrnehmung; Neuropsychologie; Evolutionspsychologie
    Scope: XXIII, 217 S., 23 cm
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    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Machine generated contents note: -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- BEAUTY -- 1. What is this thing called beauty? -- 2. Captivating faces -- 3. The measure of facial beauty -- 4. The body beautiful -- 5. How the brain works -- 6. Brains behind beauty -- 7. Evolving beauty -- 8. Landscapes -- 9. Numbering beauty -- 10. The illogic of beauty -- PLEASURE -- 1. What is this thing called pleasure? -- 2. Food -- 3. Sex -- 4. Money -- 5. Liking, wanting, learning -- 6. The logic of pleasure -- ART -- 1. What is this thing called art? -- 2. Art: Biology and culture -- 3. Descriptive science of the arts -- 4. Experimental science of the arts -- 5. Conceptual art -- 6. The inception of art -- 7. Messy minds -- 8. Evolving art -- 9. Art: A tail or a song? -- 10. The serendipity of art
  2. Brain, beauty, and art
    essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus
    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan; Cardillo, Eileen R.
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
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    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan; Cardillo, Eileen R.
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    ISBN: 9780197513620
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    Scope: xxi, 257 Seiten, Illustrationen
  3. Brain, beauty, and art
    essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus
    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (Herausgeber); Cardillo, Eileen R. (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

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    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (Herausgeber); Cardillo, Eileen R. (Herausgeber)
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    ISBN: 9780197513651
    RVK Categories: EC 1990
    Other subjects: Aesthetics / Psychological aspects; Arts / Psychological aspects
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  4. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Author: Chatterjee, Anjan
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and... more

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    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all"--

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780199811809; 0199811806; 9780190262013
    RVK Categories: CC 5680 ; CC 6900
    Subjects: Aesthetics / Psychological aspects; Genetic psychology; Brain / Evolution; PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; Kunst; Psychologie; Ästhetik; Ästhetische Wahrnehmung; Neuropsychologie; Evolutionspsychologie
    Scope: XXIII, 217 S., 23 cm
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    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Machine generated contents note: -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- BEAUTY -- 1. What is this thing called beauty? -- 2. Captivating faces -- 3. The measure of facial beauty -- 4. The body beautiful -- 5. How the brain works -- 6. Brains behind beauty -- 7. Evolving beauty -- 8. Landscapes -- 9. Numbering beauty -- 10. The illogic of beauty -- PLEASURE -- 1. What is this thing called pleasure? -- 2. Food -- 3. Sex -- 4. Money -- 5. Liking, wanting, learning -- 6. The logic of pleasure -- ART -- 1. What is this thing called art? -- 2. Art: Biology and culture -- 3. Descriptive science of the arts -- 4. Experimental science of the arts -- 5. Conceptual art -- 6. The inception of art -- 7. Messy minds -- 8. Evolving art -- 9. Art: A tail or a song? -- 10. The serendipity of art
  5. Brain, beauty, & art
    essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus
    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (HerausgeberIn); Cardillo, Eileen R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    "When I first started to think about the neural basis of aesthetic experiences in the late 1990s, little was written on the topic. Unlike other domains of psychology, such as attention, or perception, or memory, aesthetics had not gained purchase in... more

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    "When I first started to think about the neural basis of aesthetic experiences in the late 1990s, little was written on the topic. Unlike other domains of psychology, such as attention, or perception, or memory, aesthetics had not gained purchase in cognitive neuroscience. In fact, aesthetics was barely visible in psychology itself despite being rooted in Fechner's writings over a hundred years earlier. In 1999, papers by Zeki (1999) and Ramachandran and Hirstein (1999) were initial forays into scientific aesthetics by established neuroscientists. While undeniably important as initial markers for the field, their papers were but a first step. They were speculative and did not offer a framework for a systematic research program. Scholars in the humanities latched on to these initial papers, in ways that were detrimental to the field. For the most part, they ignored subsequent careful experimental work done by neuroscientists, as if neuroaesthetics began and ended in 1999 (Chatterjee, 2011). Missing in early discussions was a basic question: what would a framework that could guide experimental progress in the neuroscience of aesthetics entail?"--

     
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    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (HerausgeberIn); Cardillo, Eileen R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780197513620
    RVK Categories: CC 5680
    Subjects: Aesthetics; Arts
    Scope: xxi, 257 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme
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  6. Brain, beauty, & art
    essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus
    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (HerausgeberIn); Cardillo, Eileen R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2022]; ©2021
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, New York, NY

    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... more

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    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. Cover -- Brain, Beauty, &amp -- Art -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue Where Have We Been, and Where Are We Now? -- Contributors -- Section I Frameworks -- 1. An Early Framework for a Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Aesthetics -- 2. Bringing It All Together: Neurological and Neuroimaging Evidence of the Neural Underpinnings of Visual Aesthetics -- 3. But, What Actually Happens When We Engage with "Art"? -- 4. Naturalizing Aesthetics -- 5. Moving Toward Emotions in the Aesthetic Experience -- 6. The Aesthetic Triad -- 7. How Neuroimaging Is Transforming Our Understanding of Aesthetic Taste -- 8. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience -- Section II Beauty -- 9. Facial Beauty and the Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex -- 10. Beautiful People in the Brain of the Beholder -- 11. The Mark of Villainy: The Connection Between Appearance and Perceived Morality -- 12. A Quest for Beauty -- 13. Scene Preferences, Aesthetic Appeal, and Curiosity: Revisiting the Neurobiology of the Infovore -- 14. Kinds of Beauty and the Prefrontal Cortex -- 15. Expertise and Aesthetic Liking -- 16. Social Meaning Brings Beauty: Neural Response to the Beauty of Abstract Chinese Characters -- Section III Art -- 17. The Contributions of Emotion and Reward to Aesthetic Judgment of Visual Art -- 18. Embodiment and the Aesthetic Experience of Images -- 19. The Role of Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortices in Aesthetic Valuation -- 20. Noninvasive Brain Stimulation of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex During Aesthetic Appreciation -- 21. Is Artistic Composition in Abstract Art Detected Automatically? -- 22. The Contribution of Visual Area V5 to the Perception of Implied Motion in Art and Its Appreciation -- 23. Art Is Its Own Reward -- 24. Imaging the Subjective -- 25. Cultural Neuroaesthetics of Delicate Sadness Induced by Noh Masks.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (HerausgeberIn); Cardillo, Eileen R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780197513644; 9780197513651; 9780197513637
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    RVK Categories: CC 5680
    Subjects: Aesthetics-Psychological aspects; Arts-Psychological aspects; Electronic books
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  7. Brain, beauty, & art
    essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus
    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (HerausgeberIn); Cardillo, Eileen R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2022]; ©2021
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, New York, NY

    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... more

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    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. Cover -- Brain, Beauty, &amp -- Art -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue Where Have We Been, and Where Are We Now? -- Contributors -- Section I Frameworks -- 1. An Early Framework for a Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Aesthetics -- 2. Bringing It All Together: Neurological and Neuroimaging Evidence of the Neural Underpinnings of Visual Aesthetics -- 3. But, What Actually Happens When We Engage with "Art"? -- 4. Naturalizing Aesthetics -- 5. Moving Toward Emotions in the Aesthetic Experience -- 6. The Aesthetic Triad -- 7. How Neuroimaging Is Transforming Our Understanding of Aesthetic Taste -- 8. The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience -- Section II Beauty -- 9. Facial Beauty and the Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex -- 10. Beautiful People in the Brain of the Beholder -- 11. The Mark of Villainy: The Connection Between Appearance and Perceived Morality -- 12. A Quest for Beauty -- 13. Scene Preferences, Aesthetic Appeal, and Curiosity: Revisiting the Neurobiology of the Infovore -- 14. Kinds of Beauty and the Prefrontal Cortex -- 15. Expertise and Aesthetic Liking -- 16. Social Meaning Brings Beauty: Neural Response to the Beauty of Abstract Chinese Characters -- Section III Art -- 17. The Contributions of Emotion and Reward to Aesthetic Judgment of Visual Art -- 18. Embodiment and the Aesthetic Experience of Images -- 19. The Role of Left Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortices in Aesthetic Valuation -- 20. Noninvasive Brain Stimulation of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex During Aesthetic Appreciation -- 21. Is Artistic Composition in Abstract Art Detected Automatically? -- 22. The Contribution of Visual Area V5 to the Perception of Implied Motion in Art and Its Appreciation -- 23. Art Is Its Own Reward -- 24. Imaging the Subjective -- 25. Cultural Neuroaesthetics of Delicate Sadness Induced by Noh Masks.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (HerausgeberIn); Cardillo, Eileen R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780197513644; 9780197513651; 9780197513637
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    RVK Categories: CC 5680
    Subjects: Aesthetics-Psychological aspects; Arts-Psychological aspects; Electronic books
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  8. Brain, beauty, & art
    essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus
    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (HerausgeberIn); Cardillo, Eileen R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Published: [2022]; © 2022
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

    "When I first started to think about the neural basis of aesthetic experiences in the late 1990s, little was written on the topic. Unlike other domains of psychology, such as attention, or perception, or memory, aesthetics had not gained purchase in... more

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    "When I first started to think about the neural basis of aesthetic experiences in the late 1990s, little was written on the topic. Unlike other domains of psychology, such as attention, or perception, or memory, aesthetics had not gained purchase in cognitive neuroscience. In fact, aesthetics was barely visible in psychology itself despite being rooted in Fechner's writings over a hundred years earlier. In 1999, papers by Zeki (1999) and Ramachandran and Hirstein (1999) were initial forays into scientific aesthetics by established neuroscientists. While undeniably important as initial markers for the field, their papers were but a first step. They were speculative and did not offer a framework for a systematic research program. Scholars in the humanities latched on to these initial papers, in ways that were detrimental to the field. For the most part, they ignored subsequent careful experimental work done by neuroscientists, as if neuroaesthetics began and ended in 1999 (Chatterjee, 2011). Missing in early discussions was a basic question: what would a framework that could guide experimental progress in the neuroscience of aesthetics entail?"--

     
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    Contributor: Chatterjee, Anjan (HerausgeberIn); Cardillo, Eileen R. (HerausgeberIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780197513620
    RVK Categories: CC 5680
    Subjects: Aesthetics; Arts
    Scope: xxi, 257 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme
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  9. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Author: Chatterjee, Anjan
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0199811806; 9780199811809
    Subjects: Ästhetische Wahrnehmung; Neuropsychologie; Evolutionspsychologie
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    Literaturverz. S. 191 - 206
  10. Neuroaesthetics
    growing pains of a new discipline
    Author: Chatterjee, Anjan

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    Parent title: In: Aesthetic science : connecting minds, brains, and experience.(2012); 2012; S. 299 - 317
  11. Brain, Beauty, and Art
    Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus
    Author: Chatterjee, Anjan
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    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... more

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    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.

     
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    Contributor: Cardilo, Eileen
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    ISBN: 9780197513637
    RVK Categories: EC 1990
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  12. The aesthetic brain
    how we evolved to desire beauty and enjoy art
    Author: Chatterjee, Anjan
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York, NY

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    ISBN: 9780199316403; 0199316406; 9780199811878; 0199811873; 9780199811809; 0199811806
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    Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology; PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics; Aesthetics / Psychological aspects; Brain / Evolution; Genetic psychology; Psychology; Esthetics; Brain / physiology; Pleasure; Psychologie; Ästhetik; Aesthetics; Genetic psychology; Brain; Evolutionspsychologie; Neuropsychologie; Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
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    "The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey addressing fundamental questions about aesthetics and art. Using neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Chatterjee shows how beauty, pleasure, and art are grounded biologically, and offers explanations for why beauty, pleasure, and art exist at all"--

    Machine generated contents note: -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- BEAUTY -- 1. What is this thing called beauty? -- 2. Captivating faces -- 3. The measure of facial beauty -- 4. The body beautiful -- 5. How the brain works -- 6. Brains behind beauty -- 7. Evolving beauty -- 8. Landscapes -- 9. Numbering beauty -- 10. The illogic of beauty -- PLEASURE -- 1. What is this thing called pleasure? -- 2. Food -- 3. Sex -- 4. Money -- 5. Liking, wanting, learning -- 6. The logic of pleasure -- ART -- 1. What is this thing called art? -- 2. Art: Biology and culture -- 3. Descriptive science of the arts -- 4. Experimental science of the arts -- 5. Conceptual art -- 6. The inception of art -- 7. Messy minds -- 8. Evolving art -- 9. Art: A tail or a song? -- 10. The serendipity of art