1 Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, University College London, London, UK 2 The Italian Society for Neuroaesthetics ‘Semir Zeki’, Trieste, Italy 3 Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologies (EA 4559), Université Lille-Nord de France, Lille, France 4 Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France 5 Centre de Neuro-imagerie de Recherche, Paris, France 6 Centre de Recherche de l...

The author considers combinatory play as an intersection between creativity, play, and neuroaesthetics. She discusses combinatory play as vital to the creative process in art and science, particularly with regard to the incubation of new ideas. She reviews findings from current neurobiological research and outlines the way that the brain activates various regions when creative, combinatory play...

n neuroscience, art is believed to have a divergent scope for problem solving (Zeki,1999). An artist focuses on ordinary every day happenings in depth, uses the higher cortical abilities of the brain, but finally what makes the artistic work out of his/her creativity is an output of the emotional system at subcortical level. In fact artists utilize the combinatorial properties of visual attribu...

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 human body and the attention people pay to its appearance in daily life, only recently has neuroaesthetic inquiry turned its attention to questions concerning the aesthetic appraisal of the human body. We review eviden...

Poetry elicits emotions, and emotion is a fundamental component of human ontogeny. Although neuroaesthetics rapidly developing field research, few studies focus on poetry, none address its different modalities fruition (MOF) universal cultural heritage works, such as the Divina Commedia (DC) poem. Moreover, alexithymia (AX) resulted in being psychological risk factor during Covid-19 pandemic. T...