Neuroscience is increasingly being called upon to address issues within the humanities. We discuss challenges that arise, relating to art and beauty, and provide ideas for a way forward.

Introduction One of the most remarkable features of the human mind is its capacity for aesthetic appreciation. In the visual modality, aesthetics can be defined as the ability to derive pleasure from arrangements of colors, forms and patterns. This piece of our psychology acts in subtle ways, but it nonetheless plays an extremely consequential role in many people's lives. The sense of aesthetic...

neuroscience has recently contributed a lot to the understanding of aesthetic experience features. science, art and creativity are not really distinctively different entities. the parallelism seen between the properties of art and organizational principals of the brain has been highlighted through neuroaesthetic studies. aesthetic as a subjective experience has comprehensively been studies thro...

Citation: Kranjec A (2015) Conceptual art made simple for neuroaesthetics. Cognitive neuroscience and conceptual art share some interesting common ground. Both are concerned with very basic questions about meaning and objecthood. By focusing on reductionist and contrastive aspects of conceptual art, perhaps neuroscience methods can be applied to the investigation of such questions using everyda...

EDITORIAL article Front. Neurosci., 14 July 2023Sec. Perception Science Volume 17 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1225308

The article considers neuroaesthetics as an important direction in modern science, neural networks that are actively included art and culture. network a metaphor for our society is becoming the basis humanists’ reflections on features of digital culture, tools help scientists, physiologists, critics, culturologists to better understand characteristics person. A few provisions torii have also be...