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The Aesthetic Brain
How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art
Taschenbuch von Anjan Chatterjee
Sprache: Englisch

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The Aesthetic Brain takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Using the latest advances in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Anjan Chatterjee investigates how aesthetic sensibilitiies are etched into our minds, explaining why artistic concerns feature centrally in our lives.
The Aesthetic Brain takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Using the latest advances in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Anjan Chatterjee investigates how aesthetic sensibilitiies are etched into our minds, explaining why artistic concerns feature centrally in our lives.
Über den Autor
Anjan Chatterjee, M.D., is Professor of Neurology, and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the editorial boards of Empirical Studies of the Arts; Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology; Behavioural Neurology; Neuropsychology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; European Neurology; The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society; American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience; Brain Science; and Policy Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology. In 2002, he was awarded the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology. He is President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics and President of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 248
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190262013
ISBN-10: 019026201X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Chatterjee, Anjan
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 216 x 139 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Anjan Chatterjee
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,309 kg
preigu-id: 108610395
Über den Autor
Anjan Chatterjee, M.D., is Professor of Neurology, and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the editorial boards of Empirical Studies of the Arts; Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology; Behavioural Neurology; Neuropsychology; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; European Neurology; The Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society; American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience; Brain Science; and Policy Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology. In 2002, he was awarded the Norman Geschwind Prize in Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology by the American Academy of Neurology. He is President of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics and President of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Society.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 248
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780190262013
ISBN-10: 019026201X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Chatterjee, Anjan
Hersteller: Oxford University Press, USA
Maße: 216 x 139 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Anjan Chatterjee
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,309 kg
preigu-id: 108610395
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