Given that aesthetic experiences typically involve extracting meaning from environment, we
believe that semantic cognition research has much to offer the field of neuroaesthetics. In the …

Previous studies have struggled to determine the relationship between mirror neuron brain
regions and two distinct “action understanding” processes: identifying actions and identifying …

Dance has become an important topic for research in empirical aesthetics, social and motor
cognition, and as an intervention for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders …

Within the last decade, the learning, perception, and performance of complex motor actions
have become major topics in cognitive neuroscience. Growing interest in social cognition …

There is growing interest in the cerebellum's contributions to higher order functions of the
human brain. When considering specific activities of the human cerebellum related to art, we …

Background Research evidence suggests that physiological state of hunger might affect
preference for female body weight, such that hungrier, compared to satiate, men prefer …

Gustav T. Fechner (1871, 1876) had high hopes for empirical aesthetics. He expected it to
evolve into a unified system of general principles of beauty and art. Fechner's empirical …

Experiences with visual art are complex, multi-faceted, contextually dependent phenomena.
This chapter provides an overview of the current state of knowledge with respect to …

This study aimed to identify the factor structures—which are the predominant frameworks for
describing the basic dimensions of a concept—that contribute to the aesthetics of body …

This chapter describes experimental studies that have examined the brain systems involved
in dance observation. We will focus on experimental work revealing neural, cognitive …