The Aesthetic Brain takes the reader on a wide-ranging journey through the world of beauty,
pleasure, and art. Chatterjee uses neuroscience to probe how an aesthetic sense is etched …

The Aesthetic Mind breaks new ground in bringing together empirical sciences and
philosophy to enhance our understanding of aesthetics and the experience of art. An …

A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the
tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry. In Feeling Beauty, G …

What do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an" aesthetic"
experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye (and brain) of the beholder? Such …

Puzzlingly, humans in all cultures engage in a broad variety of aesthetically oriented
activities that appear to have no obvious evolutionary utility, including immersion in those …

Less than two decades after its inception, the burgeoning field of neuroaesthetics continues
to grow in interest and momentum. Despite the biological and social importance of the …

Many hypotheses about art's function simply presuppose that art is one thing, thereby
excluding other things. A common assumption in many of the nine hypotheses is that the …

Empirical aesthetics has found its way into mainstream cognitive science. Until now, most
research has focused either on identifying the internal processes that underlie a perceiver's …

The neural basis for visual aesthetics is largely unknown. Yet, murmurings within cognitive
neuroscience suggest this will soon change. In this review, I suggest several ways in which …

About a decade ago, psychology of the arts started to gain momentum owing to a number of
drives: technological progress improved the conditions under which art could be studied in …