Neuroaesthetics and Art

Today I would like to introduce you to the emerging field of Neuroaesthetics. Mindhacks.com presents an article on the analysis of art and beauty. (Click here to skip intro and read article)

Article Introduction (Via MindHacks):

Seed Magazine has an excellent article by Mo Costandi discussing how the study of neuroaesthetics – the neuroscience of art and beauty – is really starting to take off with a dedicated research centre recently launched in London.

Article Excerpt (Via MindHacks):

I love the idea of neuroaesthetics but remain a little skeptical, not least because some of the literature gives the impression that it’s revolutionising our understanding of art when psychologists have been researching it since the beginning of psychology. I’ve yet to see the ‘neuro’ aspect add anything particularly novel so far.

Background on Neuroaesthetics (Via Brainethics)

Many people are interested in the new, emerging field of neuroaesthetics – the attempt to use neuroscience to understand art and aesthetic behaviour. It is not an easy field to come to as an outsider, though. First of all, at the moment neuroaesthetics is not so much a coherent field (with textbooks and so on) as a collection of researchers with an individual interest in illuminating the neural underpinnings of art behaviour – and what these researchers take “neuroaesthetics” to mean differ rather widely. Secondly, although quite a lot has been written on neuroaesthetics in the last ten years, there is really no representative publication where newcomers can become acquainted with all the problems and research data pertinent to neuroaesthtics (for the reasons stated above).

Click here to read the full article on Art and Neuroaesthetics

Relevant:

Click here for a primer on Neuroaesthetics

Click here for an introduction from the Neuroaesthetics Institute