Colin Martindale, Paul Locher, Vladimir Petrov, Arnold Berleant

Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Describes fresh approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology. This book begins with a consideration of ten theories on the evolutionary function of specific arts such as music and literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351844543
• Artikelnr.: 56890370

Autorenporträt

Colin Martindale, Paul Locher, Vladimir Petrov, Arnold Berleant

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Colin Martindale
Chapter 1
What Art is and What Art Does: An Overview of Contemporary Evolutionary
Hypotheses Ellen Dissanayake
Chapter 2
An Evolutionary Model of Artistic and Musical Creativity Gregory J. Feist
Chapter 3
The Adaptive Function of Literature Joseph Carroll
Chapter 4
Does Reading Literature Make People Happy? Willie van Peer, Alexandra
Menties and Jan Auracher
Chapter 5
Cognitive Poetics and Poetry Recital Reuven Tsur
Chapter 6
The Alphabet and Creativity: Implications for East Asia William C. Hannas
Chapter 7
Creativity, Gender, History, and Authors of Fantasy for Children Ravenna
Helson
Chapter 8
Trends in the Creative Content of Scientific Journals: Good, but Not as
Good! Robert Hogenraad
Chapter 9
The Information Approach to Human Sciences, Especially Aesthetics Vladimir
M. Petrov
Chapter 10
Art and Cognition: Cognitive Processes in Art Appreciation Helmut Leder and
Benno Belke
Chapter 11
Literary Creativity: A Neuro-Psychoanalytic View Norman N. Holland
Chapter 12
A Neural-Network Theory of Beauty Colin Martindale
Chapter 13
Neural Correlates of Creative Cognition Oshin Vartanian and Vinod Goel
Chapter 14
Creativity, DNA, and Cerebral Blood Flow Rosa Aurora Chávez-Eakle
Chapter 15
Artistic Creativity and Affective Disorders: Are They Connected? Dennis K.
Kinney and Ruth L. Richards