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Rolls, Edmund T. (2014) Neuroculture : art, aesthetics, and the brain. Rendiconti Lincei - Matematica e Applicazioni, 25 (3). pp. 291-307. doi:10.1007/s12210-013-0276-7 ISSN 1120-6330.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12210-013-0276-7
Abstract
A theory of the neurobiological foundations of aesthetics and art is described. This has its roots in emotion, in which what is pleasant or unpleasant, a reward or punisher, is the result of an evolutionary process in which genes define the (pleasant or unpleasant) goals for action. To this is added the operation of the reasoning, syntactic, brain system which evolved to help solve difficult, multistep, problems, and the use of which is encouraged by pleasant feelings when elegant, simple, and hence aesthetic solutions are found that are advantageous because they are parsimonious and follow Occam’s razor. The combination of these two systems and the interactions between them provide an approach to understanding aesthetics that is rooted in evolution and its effects on brain design and function.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Rendiconti Lincei - Matematica e Applicazioni | ||||||
Publisher: | European Mathematical Society Publishing House | ||||||
ISSN: | 1120-6330 | ||||||
Official Date: | September 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | 25 | ||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 291-307 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s12210-013-0276-7 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Embodied As: | 1 |
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