In this work, I propose a model of visual aesthetic experience that combines formalist and
contextual aspects of aesthetics. The model distinguishes between two modes of …

How do external stimuli and our internal state coalesce to create the distinctive aesthetic
pleasures that give vibrance to human experience? Neuroaesthetics has so far focused on …

Aesthetic perception is one of the most interesting topics for philosophers and scientists who
investigate how it influences our interactions with objects and states of affairs. Over the last …

About a decade ago, psychology of the arts started to gain momentum owing to a number of
drives: technological progress improved the conditions under which art could be studied in …

A theory of the neural bases of aesthetic experience across the arts, which draws on the
tools of both cognitive neuroscience and traditional humanist inquiry. In Feeling Beauty, G …

We present here the most comprehensive analysis to date of neuroaesthetic processing by
reporting the results of voxel-based meta-analyses of 93 neuroimaging studies of positive …

Since its dawn in the early 2000s, neuroaesthetics has been flowering as an independent
research field (Nadal and Skov, 2013). Its emergence has mostly been driven by …

The field of neuroaesthetics has gained in popularity in recent years but also attracted
criticism from the perspectives both of the humanities and the sciences. In an effort to …

The neural basis for visual aesthetics is largely unknown. Yet, murmurings within cognitive
neuroscience suggest this will soon change. In this review, I suggest several ways in which …

Empirical aesthetics has found its way into mainstream cognitive science. Until now, most
research has focused either on identifying the internal processes that underlie a perceiver's …