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 …

How does thinking affect doing? There is a widely held view—both in academia and in the
popular press—that thinking about what you are doing, as you are doing it, hinders …

The aim of this review is to highlight the most relevant contributions on dance in
neuroscientific research. Neuroscience has analyzed the mirror system through …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Previous research on aesthetic preferences demonstrates that people are more likely to
judge a stimulus as pleasing if it is familiar. Although general familiarity and liking are …

The Philosophy of Dance Page 1 University of Dayton eCommons Philosophy Faculty Publications
Department of Philosophy 11-2019 The Philosophy of Dance Aili W. Bresnahan University of …

Suffering from the plague, Simon Jewell made his last will and testament in 1592. A sharer
in the Queen's Men Company, Jewell reveals the intertwining of his personal and …

Past research demonstrates that we are more likely to positively evaluate a stimulus if we
have had previous experience with that stimulus. This has been shown for judgment of …

The brain may be tuned to evaluate aesthetic perception through perceptual chunking when
we observe the grace of the dancer. We modelled biomechanical metrics to explain …

I defend a phenomenological account of the sense of ownership as part of a minimal sense
of self from those critics who propose either a deflationary or eliminativist critique …