Feeling beauty the neuroscience of aesthetic experience
Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, the book shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The MIT Press
2013
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience can reshape our conceptions of aesthetics and the arts. Drawing on the tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry, the book shows that neuroaesthetics offers a new model for understanding the dynamic and changing features of aesthetic life, the relationships among the arts, and how individual differences in aesthetic judgment shape the varieties of aesthetic experience |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 259 pages illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 0262315440 9780262315449 9780262315456 9781461936008 0262315459 1461936004 |