{"product_id":"art-aesthetics-and-the-brain-paperback","title":"Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoseph P. Huston\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMarcos Nadal\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eFrancisco Mora\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumans have engaged in artistic and aesthetic activities since the appearance of our species. Our ancestors have decorated their bodies, tools, and utensils for over 100,000 years. The expression of meaning using color, line, sound, rhythm, or movement, among other means, constitutes a fundamental aspect of our species' biological and cultural heritage. Art and aesthetics, therefore, contribute to our species identity and distinguish it from its living and extinct relatives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScience is faced with the challenge of explaining the natural foundations of such a unique trait, and the way cultural processes nurture it into magnificent expressions, historically and ethnically unique. How does the human brain bring about these sorts of behaviors? What neural processes underlie the appreciation of painting, music, and dance? How does training modulate these processes? How are they impaired by brain lesions and neurodegenerative diseases? How did such neural underpinnings evolve? Are humans the only species capable of aesthetic appreciation, or are other species endowed with the rudiments of this capacity? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume brings together the work on such questions by leading experts in genetics, psychology, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, art history, and philosophy. It sets the stage for a cognitive neuroscience of art and aesthetics, understood in the broadest possible terms. With sections on visual art, dance, music, neuropsychology, and evolution, the breadth of this volume's scope reflects the richness and variety of topics and methods currently used today by scientists to understand the way our brain endows us with the faculty to produce and appreciate art and aesthetics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoseph P. Huston\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Physiological Psychology at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. Joseph has published more than 400 books and scientific articles in areas of behavioral neurosciences with a focus on brain mechanisms of addiction, memory, and reward. He is chief editor of the journals \u003cem\u003eBehavioural Brain Research\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Reviews in the Neurosciences, \u003c\/em\u003e and the book series \u003cem\u003eHandbook of Behavioral Neuroscience\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarcos Nadal \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology of the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. His main research focuses on the evolution, neural correlates, and function of cognitive and affective processes involved in aesthetic preference and art appreciation, as well as moral judgment and metaphoric language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancisco Mora\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Human Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain. He has written numerous articles for scientific journals including \u003cem\u003eScience\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNature\u003c\/em\u003e and several books, among them \u003cem\u003eThe Hot Brain\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNeurocultura\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLuigi F. Agnati\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Human Physiology at the University of Modena, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, where he received the Honoris Causa Degree in Medicine. He has published more than 620 papers in refereed international journals and seven textbooks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCamilo J. Cela-Conde\u003c\/strong\u003e is Emeritus Professor of the University of the Balearic Islands, Spain. His publications include \u003cem\u003eOn Genes, Gods and Tyrants\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHuman Evolution: Trails from the Past\u003c\/em\u003e (with Francisco J. 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