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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824338503321

Autore

Starr G. Gabrielle <1974->

Titolo

Feeling beauty : the neuroscience of aesthetic experience / / G. Gabrielle Starr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-262-31545-9

0-262-52744-8

0-262-31544-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

700.1/9

Soggetti

Neurosciences and the arts

Aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aesthetics, Neuroaesthetics, and the Sister Arts -- Seen and Heard: A Model for the Sister Arts -- Aesthetics Beyond the Mind's Eye: Imagery and the Sister Arts -- Toward a Dynamic Aesthetics: the Sister Arts and Beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

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.