- Empirical Aesthetics: An Overview
- One Hundred Years of Empirical Aesthetics: Fechner to Berlyne (1876–1976)
- Revisiting Fechner’s Methods
- The Link between Empirical Aesthetics and Philosophy
- Appreciation Modes in Empirical Aesthetics
- Exploring the Landscape of Emotion in Aesthetic Experience
- The Neurobiology of Sensory Valuation
- The Evolution of Aesthetics and Beauty
- Historiometric Methods
- Observation Method in Empirical Aesthetics
- Observational Drawing Research Methods
- Implicit Measures in the Aesthetic Domain
- The Study of Eye Movements in Empirical Aesthetics
- Electrophysiology
- Functional Neuroimaging in Empirical Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics
- Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Contribution to Research in Neuroaesthetics
- Integrated Methods: A Call for Integrative and Interdisciplinary Aesthetics Research
- The Role of Collative Variables in Aesthetic Experiences
- Processing Fluency
- The Use of Visual Statistical Features in Empirical Aesthetics
- Color
- The Study of Symmetry in Empirical Aesthetics
- The Curvature Effect
- Facial Attractiveness
- The Empirical Aesthetics of Music
- The Aesthetics of Action and Movement
- Aesthetics of Dance
- The Audio-Visual Aesthetics of Music and Dance
- Aesthetic Responses to Architecture
- Aesthetics, Technology, and Popular Movies
- Empirical Aesthetics of Poetry
- Aesthetic Responses to the Characters, Plots, Worlds, and Style of Stories
- The Role of Attention, Executive Processes, and Memory in Aesthetic Experience
- Children’s Appreciation of Art
- The Influence of Expertise on Aesthetics
- The Influence of Personality on Aesthetic Preferences
- Aesthetic Sensitivity
- Cross-Cultural Empirical Aesthetics
- The General Impact of Context on Aesthetic Experience
- Empirical Aesthetics: Context, Extra Information, and Framing
- Studying Empirical Aesthetics in Museum Contexts
- Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Environments
- The Impact of the Social Context on Aesthetic Experience
- Design and Aesthetics
- The Role of Empirical Aesthetics in Consumer Behavior
- On the Empirical Aesthetics of Plating
Abstract and Keywords
Noninvasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial electrical stimulation (tES), are largely employed in cognitive neuroscience to investigate the brain–behavior relationship. During the last decade, non-invasive brain stimulation techniques have been increasingly employed in the field of neuroaesthetics research to shed light on the possible causal role of different brain regions contributing to aesthetic appreciation. This chapter provides a synthetic description of mechanisms of actions of TMS and different types of tES, and reviews recent NIBS studies that have shed light on the neural underpinning of aesthetic evaluation of (visual) artworks. The chapter also considers methodological limitations of the reviewed studies and the future potential for non-invasive brain stimulation to significantly contribute to the understanding of the neural bases of visual aesthetic experiences.
Keywords: Brain stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial electrical stimulation, cognitive neuroscience, art, aesthetics
Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca and IRCCS Mondino Foundation
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- Empirical Aesthetics: An Overview
- One Hundred Years of Empirical Aesthetics: Fechner to Berlyne (1876–1976)
- Revisiting Fechner’s Methods
- The Link between Empirical Aesthetics and Philosophy
- Appreciation Modes in Empirical Aesthetics
- Exploring the Landscape of Emotion in Aesthetic Experience
- The Neurobiology of Sensory Valuation
- The Evolution of Aesthetics and Beauty
- Historiometric Methods
- Observation Method in Empirical Aesthetics
- Observational Drawing Research Methods
- Implicit Measures in the Aesthetic Domain
- The Study of Eye Movements in Empirical Aesthetics
- Electrophysiology
- Functional Neuroimaging in Empirical Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics
- Noninvasive Brain Stimulation: Contribution to Research in Neuroaesthetics
- Integrated Methods: A Call for Integrative and Interdisciplinary Aesthetics Research
- The Role of Collative Variables in Aesthetic Experiences
- Processing Fluency
- The Use of Visual Statistical Features in Empirical Aesthetics
- Color
- The Study of Symmetry in Empirical Aesthetics
- The Curvature Effect
- Facial Attractiveness
- The Empirical Aesthetics of Music
- The Aesthetics of Action and Movement
- Aesthetics of Dance
- The Audio-Visual Aesthetics of Music and Dance
- Aesthetic Responses to Architecture
- Aesthetics, Technology, and Popular Movies
- Empirical Aesthetics of Poetry
- Aesthetic Responses to the Characters, Plots, Worlds, and Style of Stories
- The Role of Attention, Executive Processes, and Memory in Aesthetic Experience
- Children’s Appreciation of Art
- The Influence of Expertise on Aesthetics
- The Influence of Personality on Aesthetic Preferences
- Aesthetic Sensitivity
- Cross-Cultural Empirical Aesthetics
- The General Impact of Context on Aesthetic Experience
- Empirical Aesthetics: Context, Extra Information, and Framing
- Studying Empirical Aesthetics in Museum Contexts
- Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Environments
- The Impact of the Social Context on Aesthetic Experience
- Design and Aesthetics
- The Role of Empirical Aesthetics in Consumer Behavior
- On the Empirical Aesthetics of Plating