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Neurobiological foundations of art and aesthetics
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Rolls, Edmund T. (2015) Neurobiological foundations of art and aesthetics. In: Huston, Joseph P. and Nadal, Marcos and Mora, Francisco and Agnati, Luigi F. and Conde, Camilo José Cela , (eds.) Art, aesthetics, and the brain. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 453-478. ISBN 9780199670000
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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 volutionary process in which genes define the (pleasant or unpleasant) goals for action (Rolls 2005, 2013a). It is argued that combinations of multiple such factors provide part of the basis for aesthetics. To this is added the operation of the reasoning syntactic brain system which evolved to help solve difficult multi-step 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 (Rolls 2011a, 2012).
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford, UK | ||||
ISBN: | 9780199670000 | ||||
Book Title: | Art, aesthetics, and the brain | ||||
Editor: | Huston, Joseph P. and Nadal, Marcos and Mora, Francisco and Agnati, Luigi F. and Conde, Camilo José Cela | ||||
Official Date: | 2015 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 545 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 453-478 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
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