tailieunhanh - The Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics conference: Prospects and pitfalls for an emerging field

Second, it is becoming increasingly clear that psychological models (Chatterjee, 2004b; Leder et al., 2004) have underspecified affective processes involved in aesthetic appreciation. Some stud- ies have identified activation in emotion-related brain regions, such as the insula (Cupchik et al., 2009; Di Dio et al., 2007), others have identified activation in regions thought to be involved in cod- ing reward value, such as the orbitofrontal cortex (Kawabata & Zeki, 2004; Vartanian & Goel, 2004), and others have reported acti- vation in pleasure generating subcortical regions (Yue et al., 2007). Furthermore, the results reported by Skov at the conference (see also Kirk, Skov, Christensen, et al., 2009; Kirk, Skov, Hulme, et. | Brain and Cognition 76 2011 172-183 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Brain and Cognition ELSEVIER journal homepage locate b c The Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics conference Prospects and pitfalls for an emerging field Marcos Nadala Marcus T. Pearceb a Human Evolution and Cognition IFISC-CSIC and Department of Psychology University of the Balearic Islands Spain b Centre for Cognition Culture and Computation Goldsmiths University of London London SE14 6NW UK ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article history Accepted 25 January 2011 Available online 18 February 2011 Keywords Neuroaesthetics Aesthetic appreciation Brain Neuroimaging Art Painting Music Dance Neuroaesthetics is a young field of research concerned primarily with the neural basis of cognitive and affective processes engaged when an individual takes an aesthetic or artistic approach towards a work of art a non-artistic object or a natural phenomenon. In September 2009 the Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics Conference brought together leading researchers in the field to present and discuss current advances. We summarize some of the principal themes of the conference placing neuroaesthetics in a historical context and discussing its scope and relation to other disciplines. We also identify what we believe to be the key outstanding questions the main pitfalls and challenges faced by the field and some promising avenues for future research. 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 1. Introduction Neuroaesthetics is still an emerging field of research. Although it draws on research in many disciplines it is rapidly taking shape as a field of study in its own right with increasing numbers of journal articles and books contributing to its central themes. Some of the researchers at the field s forefront recently came together at the Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics Conference 24-26 September 2009 to present their latest research on the relations between artistic philosophical psychological neural and evolutionary aspects