Looking for Beauty in the Brain

• Authors: Weed E.
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The emerging research area of neuroaesthetics has provoked a good deal of discussion. Although it seems reasonable to describe the experience of aesthetic enjoyment as a mental event, and it also seems reasonable to claim that mental states must be related to brain states, the search for specific brain states that correlate with aesthetic enjoyment is tricky, despite the many recent advances in brain-imaging technology. Correlating the aesthetic experience with specific brain states involves defining the aesthetic experience. By applying a model from the world of empirical consciousness research to three neuroaesthetic experiments, the author shows that each of these studies approaches the object of study, the aesthetic experience, from a different perspective. By employing a framework to make explicit the sometimes implicit assumptions involved in neuroaesthetic research, he hopes to open a new avenue for the continuation of an already fascinating discussion.

Keywords

EN

AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE; AESTHETICS; NEUROAESTHETICS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 45
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5-23
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Weed E.

• E. Weed, Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University Hospital, Noerrebrogade, Building 14A, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark,

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08CZAAAA04999503