Special Issue of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts

The APA journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts has just published a special issue on “Neuroaesthetics: Cognition and Neurobiology of Aesthetic Experience“. Here is the table of contents:

    • Introduction to the special issue: Toward an interdisciplinary neuroaesthetics (Nadal, M. & Skov, M.)
    • Studying aesthetics with the method of production: Effects of context and local symmetry (Westphal-Fitch, G.; Oh, J. & Fitch, W. T.)
    • Next steps in neuroaesthetics: Which processes and processing stages to study? (Leder, H.)
    • Middle temporal gyrus encodes individual differences in perceived facial attractiveness (Vartanian, O.; Goel, V.; Lam, E.; Fisher, M. & Granic, J.)
    • The neuroaesthetics of music (Brattico, E. & Pearce, M.)
    • Neural interactions that give rise to musical pleasure (Salimpoor, V. N. & Zatorre, R. J.)
    • Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics (Christensen, J. F. & Calvo-Merino, B.)
    • Changes in painting styles of two artists with Alzheimer’s disease (van Buren, B.; Bromberger, B.; Potts, D.; Miller, B. & Chatterjee, A.)
    • Stability of art preference in frontotemporal dementia (Halpern, A. R. & O’Connor, M. G.)
    • An evolutionary approach to art and aesthetic experience (Zaidel, D. W.; Nadal, M.; Flexas, A. & Munar, E.)

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Position available

The University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria), Institute for Music Aesthetics, seeks to appoint from the nearest possible date for four years an 0.75 university assistant. Read more here.

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Neurobiology and the Art of Walking in Paris

Alan T. Marty has written this essay that  speculates about the Neurobiology of the Sublime as it relates to the art of travel in Paris. He is keen on receiving inputs from people interested in the biological basis of art and aesthetics.

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