Kilka uwag na temat neuroestetyki. Na marginesie książki G. Gabrielle Starr, Feeling Beauty. The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience

Abstract

The article comprises a review of basic methodological assumptions of neuroaesthetics. The author indicates a connection between neuroaesthetic research and conclusions in cognitive psychology, as well as evolutionary psychology. He puts forward a thesis concerning little usefulness of neuroaesthetic brain examination and evolutionary conceptual schema for the understanding of works of art and aesthetic experiences. To substantiate it, he carries out an analysis of chosen elements of solutions by A. Chatterjee, S. Zeki, V.S. Ramachandran and W. Hirstein. A better example for using brain examination in aesthetics seems to be Gabrielle G. Starr work devoted to neural basis of aesthetic sensations.