edited by Arthur P. Shimamura and Stephen E. Palmer.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2012
1 online resource (xii, 408 p., [12] p. of plates)
ill. (some col.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Toward a science of aesthetics : ideas & issues / Arthur P. Shimamura -- The philosophy of art and aesthetics, psychology, and neuroscience : studies in literature, visual arts, and music / Noel Carroll, Margaret Moore, & William P. Seeley -- Aesthetic theory and aesthetic science : prospects for integration / Vincent Bergeron & Dominic McIver Lopes -- Triangulating aesthetic experience / Murray Smith -- Art and the anthropologists / Gregory Currie -- Aesthetic science and artistic knowledge / Blake Gopnik -- Empirical investigation of an aesthetic experience with art / Paul J. Locher -- Hidden knowledge in aesthetic judgments : preferences for colors and spatial compositions / Stephen E. Palmer, Karen B. Schloss, & Jonathan S. Gardner -- Processing fluency, aesthetic pleasure, and culturally shared taste / Rolf Reber -- Human emotions and aesthetic experience / Paul J. Silvia -- Artistic development : the three essential spheres / Kimberly M. Sheridan & Howard Gardner -- Neuroaesthetics : growing pains of a new discipline / Anjan Chatterjee -- The modularity of aesthetic processing and perception in the human brain : functional neuroimaging studies of neuroaesthetics / Ulrich Kirk -- Art compositions elicit distributed activation in the human brain / Alumit Ishai -- A cognitive & behavioral neurological approach to aesthetics / Zachary A. Miller & Bruce L. Miller -- Neurology of visual aesthetics : Indian nymphs, modern art, and sexy beaks / V.S. Ramachandran & Elizabeth Seckel.