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The Aesthetic BrainHow We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art$
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The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art

Anjan Chatterjee, MD

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780199811809

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2014

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199811809.001.0001

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Experimental science of the arts

Experimental science of the arts

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(p.134) Chapter 4 Experimental science of the arts
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The Aesthetic Brain
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Anjan Chatterjee

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199811809.003.0020

Is reducing our visual world to its elements the best way to study perception or aesthetics? From the work of Gustav Fechner to Gestalt psychology and beyond, this chapter discusses the history of empirical aesthetics and its current experimental state.

Keywords:   aesthetics, perception, Fechner, empirical, experimental

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