Neuroaesthetics

Neuroaesthetics

Prior to recent technological developments, aesthetics had largely been the domain of the faculties of arts and humanities. Neuroaesthetics is a relatively new subcategory of cognitive neuroscience stemming from both evolutionary psychology and design theory. Neuroaesthetics incorporates an interdisciplinary approach to aesthetics with the aim to better understand the neural substrates implicated in human aesthetic judgment.

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