An Introduction to Neuroaesthetics
The Neuroscientific Approach to Aesthetic Experience, Artistic Creativity and Arts Appreciation
Distributed for Museum Tusculanum Press
- Contents

Preface
1. A History for Neuroaesthetics
Marcos Nadal, Antoni Gomila, and Alejandro Gàlvez-Pol
2. Experimental Aesthetics
Helmut Leder and Pablo P. L. Tinio
3. The Theoretical and Methodological Backdrop of Neuroaesthetics
Jon O. Lauring
4. Visual Art
Jon O. Lauring
5. Seeing Faces in the Brain
Alumit Ishai
6. Environmental Neuroaesthetics, Places, and Architecture
Nicolai Rostrup
7. The Musical Brain
Jens Hjortkjær
8. Literary Reading
David S. Miall
9. Film, Neuroaesthetics, and Empathy
Torben Grodal and Mette Kramer
10. Neuroaesthetics and Dance
Beatriz Calvo-Merino and Julia F. Christensen
11. Neuropsychology of the Arts
Bartlomiej Piechowski-Jozwiak and Julien Bogousslavsky
12. Generating Aesthetic Products in the Scanner: fMRI Studies of Drawing, Story Writing, and Jazz Improvisation
Oshin Vartanian
Glossary
Contributors
Index
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