Evolutionary And Neurocognitive Approaches To Aesthetics Creativity And The Arts

Author : Colin Martindale,Paul Locher,Vladimir M Petrov,Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351844536

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Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts by Colin Martindale,Paul Locher,Vladimir M Petrov,Arnold Berleant Pdf

In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology and answering new questions with new methods and theories. All known societies produce and enjoy arts such as literature, music and visual decoration or depiction. Judging from prehistoric archaeological evidence, this arose very early in human development. Furthermore, Darwin was explicit in attributing aesthetic sensitivity to lower animals. These considerations lead us to wonder whether the arts might not be evolutionarily based. Although such an evolutionary basis is not obvious on the face of it, the idea has recently elicited considerable attention. The book begins with a consideration of ten theories on the evolutionary function of specific arts such as music and literature. The theory of evolution was first drawn up in biology, but evolution is not confined to biology: genuinely evolutionary theories of sociocultural change can be formulated. That they need to be formulated is shown in several chapters that discuss regular trends in literature and scientific writings. Psychologists have recently rediscovered the obvious fact that thought and perception occur in the brain, so cognitive science moves ever closer to neuroscience. Several chapters give overviews of neurocognitive and neural network approaches to creativity and aesthetic appreciation. The book concludes with two exciting describing brain-scan research on what happens in the brain during creativity and presenting a close examination of the relationship between genetically transmitted mental disorder and creativity.

Author : Colin Martindale,Paul Locher,Vladimir M Petrov,Arnold Berleant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351844543

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Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts by Colin Martindale,Paul Locher,Vladimir M Petrov,Arnold Berleant Pdf

In this book, well-known scholars describe new and exciting approaches to aesthetics, creativity and psychology of the arts, approaching these topics from a point of view that is biological or related to biology and answering new questions with new methods and theories. All known societies produce and enjoy arts such as literature, music and visual decoration or depiction. Judging from prehistoric archaeological evidence, this arose very early in human development. Furthermore, Darwin was explicit in attributing aesthetic sensitivity to lower animals. These considerations lead us to wonder whether the arts might not be evolutionarily based. Although such an evolutionary basis is not obvious on the face of it, the idea has recently elicited considerable attention. The book begins with a consideration of ten theories on the evolutionary function of specific arts such as music and literature. The theory of evolution was first drawn up in biology, but evolution is not confined to biology: genuinely evolutionary theories of sociocultural change can be formulated. That they need to be formulated is shown in several chapters that discuss regular trends in literature and scientific writings. Psychologists have recently rediscovered the obvious fact that thought and perception occur in the brain, so cognitive science moves ever closer to neuroscience. Several chapters give overviews of neurocognitive and neural network approaches to creativity and aesthetic appreciation. The book concludes with two exciting describing brain-scan research on what happens in the brain during creativity and presenting a close examination of the relationship between genetically transmitted mental disorder and creativity.

Author : Joseph Carroll,John Anthony Johnson,Valerie van Mulukom,Emelie Jonsson,Rex Eugene Jung
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832502037

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Imaginative Culture and Human Nature: Evolutionary Perspectives on the Arts, Religion, and Ideology by Joseph Carroll,John Anthony Johnson,Valerie van Mulukom,Emelie Jonsson,Rex Eugene Jung Pdf

Author : Jon McCormack,Mark d’Inverno
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642317279

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Computers and Creativity by Jon McCormack,Mark d’Inverno Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume introduces new theories and ideas on creativity from the perspectives of science and art. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, theorists and artists working in artificial intelligence, generative art, creative computing, music composition, and cybernetics, the book examines the relationship between computation and creativity from both analytic and practical perspectives. Each contributor describes innovative new ways creativity can be understood through, and inspired by, computers. The book tackles critical philosophical questions and discusses the major issues raised by computational creativity, including: whether a computer can exhibit creativity independently of its creator; what kinds of creativity are possible in light of our knowledge from computational simulation, artificial intelligence, evolutionary theory and information theory; and whether we can begin to automate the evaluation of aesthetics and creativity in silico. These important, often controversial questions are contextualised by current thinking in computational creative arts practice. Leading artistic practitioners discuss their approaches to working creatively with computational systems in a diverse array of media, including music, sound art, visual art, and interactivity. The volume also includes a comprehensive review of computational aesthetic evaluation and judgement research, alongside discussion and insights from pioneering artists working with computation as a creative medium over the last fifty years. A distinguishing feature of this volume is that it explains and grounds new theoretical ideas on creativity through practical applications and creative practice. Computers and Creativity will appeal to theorists, researchers in artificial intelligence, generative and evolutionary computing, practicing artists and musicians, students and any reader generally interested in understanding how computers can impact upon creativity. It bridges concepts from computer science, psychology, neuroscience, visual art, music and philosophy in an accessible way, illustrating how computers are fundamentally changing what we can imagine and create, and how we might shape the creativity of the future. Computers and Creativity will appeal to theorists, researchers in artificial intelligence, generative and evolutionary computing, practicing artists and musicians, students and any reader generally interested in understanding how computers can impact upon creativity. It bridges concepts from computer science, psychology, neuroscience, visual art, music and philosophy in an accessible way, illustrating how computers are fundamentally changing what we can imagine and create, and how we might shape the creativity of the future.

Author : Benjamin J Richardson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509924615

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The Art of Environmental Law by Benjamin J Richardson Pdf

Environmental law has aesthetic dimensions. Aesthetic values have shaped the making of environmental law, and in turn such law governs many of our nature-based sensory experiences. Aesthetics is also integral to understanding the very fabric of environmental law, in its institutions, procedures and discourses. The Art of Environmental Law, the first book of its kind, brings new insights into the importance of aesthetic issues in a variety of domains of environmental governance around the world, from climate change to biodiversity conservation. It also argues for aesthetics, and relatedly the arts, to be taken more seriously in the practice of environmental law so as to improve our emotional and ethical capacities to address the upheavals of the Anthropocene.

Author : James C. Kaufman,Robert J. Sternberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107188488

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The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity by James C. Kaufman,Robert J. Sternberg Pdf

The largest and broadest-ranging Handbook of creativity yet, presenting comprehensive, rigorous, and up-to-date scientific scholarship on creativity.

Author : Anna Marie Prentiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030111175

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Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology by Anna Marie Prentiss Pdf

Evolutionary Research in Archaeology seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary evolutionary research in archaeology. The book will provide a single source for introduction and overview of basic and advanced evolutionary concepts and research programs in archaeology. Content will be organized around four areas of critical research including microevolutionary and macroevolutionary process, human ecology studies (evolutionary ecology, demography, and niche construction), and evolutionary cognitive archaeology. Authors of individual chapters will address theoretical foundations, history of research, contemporary contributions and debates, and implications for the future for their respective topics. As appropriate, authors present or discuss short empirical case studies to illustrate key arguments. ​

Author : Chiara Cappelletto
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780231551526

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Embodying Art by Chiara Cappelletto Pdf

In recent years, neuroscientists have made ambitious attempts to explain artistic processes and spectatorship through brain imaging techniques. But can brain science really unravel the workings of art? Is the brain in fact the site of aesthetic appreciation? Embodying Art recasts the relationship between neuroscience and aesthetics and calls for shifting the focus of inquiry from the brain itself to personal experience in the world. Chiara Cappelletto presents close readings of neuroscientific and philosophical scholarship as well as artworks and art criticism, identifying their epistemological premises and theoretical consequences. She critiques neuroaesthetic reductionism and its assumptions about a mind/body divide, arguing that the brain is embodied and embedded in affective, cultural, and historical milieus. Cappelletto considers understandings of the human brain encompassing scientific, philosophical, and visual and performance arts discourses. She examines how neuroaesthetics has constructed its field of study, exploring the ways digital renderings and scientific data have been used to produce the brain as a cultural and visual object. Tracing the intertwined histories of brain science and aesthetic theory, Embodying Art offers a strikingly original and profound philosophical account of the human brain as a living artifact.

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191633119

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The Artful Species: Aesthetics, Art, and Evolution by Stephen Davies Pdf

The Artful Species explores the idea that our aesthetic responses and art behaviors are connected to our evolved human nature. Our humanoid forerunners displayed aesthetic sensibilities hundreds of thousands of years ago and the art standing of prehistoric cave paintings is virtually uncontested. In Part One, Stephen Davies analyses the key concepts of the aesthetic, art, and evolution, and explores how they might be related. He considers a range of issues,including whether animals have aesthetic tastes and whether art is not only universal but cross-culturally comprehensible. Part Two examines the many aesthetic interests humans take in animals and how these reflect our biological interests, and the idea that our environmental and landscape preferences arerooted in the experiences of our distant ancestors. In considering the controversial subject of human beauty, evolutionary psychologists have traditionally focused on female physical attractiveness in the context of mate selection, but Davies presents a broader view which decouples human beauty from mate choice and explains why it goes more with social performance and self-presentation. Part Three asks if the arts, together or singly, are biological adaptations, incidental byproducts of nonartadaptations, or so removed from biology that they rate as purely cultural technologies. Davies does not conclusively support any one of the many positions considered here, but argues that there are grounds, nevertheless, for seeing art as part of human nature. Art serves as a powerful and complexsignal of human fitness, and so cannot be incidental to biology. Indeed, aesthetic responses and art behaviors are the touchstones of our humanity.

Author : Cecilia Di Chio,Anthony Brabazon,Marc Ebner,Muddassar Farooq,Andreas Fink,Jörn Grahl,Gary Greenfield,Penousal Machado,Michael O'Neill,Ernesto Tarantino,Neil Urquhart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642122422

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Applications of Evolutionary Computation by Cecilia Di Chio,Anthony Brabazon,Marc Ebner,Muddassar Farooq,Andreas Fink,Jörn Grahl,Gary Greenfield,Penousal Machado,Michael O'Neill,Ernesto Tarantino,Neil Urquhart Pdf

Evolutionary computation (EC) techniques are e?cient, nature-inspired me- ods based on the principles of natural evolution and genetics. Due to their - ciency and simple underlying principles, these methods can be used for a diverse rangeofactivitiesincludingproblemsolving,optimization,machinelearningand pattern recognition. A large and continuously increasing number of researchers and professionals make use of EC techniques in various application domains. This volume presents a careful selection of relevant EC examples combined with a thorough examination of the techniques used in EC. The papers in the volume illustrate the current state of the art in the application of EC and should help and inspire researchers and professionals to develop e?cient EC methods for design and problem solving. All papers in this book were presented during EvoApplications 2010, which included a range of events on application-oriented aspects of EC. Since 1998, EvoApplications — formerly known as EvoWorkshops — has provided a unique opportunity for EC researchers to meet and discuss application aspects of EC and has been an important link between EC research and its application in a variety of domains. During these 12 years, new events have arisen, some have disappeared,whileothershavematuredtobecomeconferencesoftheirown,such as EuroGP in 2000, EvoCOP in 2004, and EvoBIO in 2007. And from this year, EvoApplications has become a conference as well.

Author : Marco Antonio Correa Varella,Jaroslava Varella Valentova,Catherine Salmon,Barnaby James Wyld Dixson,Marina Butovskaya,Anabela Pinto Pinto,Boguslaw Pawlowski,Carol Cronin Weisfeld
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832527542

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A 150 years’ celebration of darwin’s book on human evolution and sexual selection: Its legacy and future prospects by Marco Antonio Correa Varella,Jaroslava Varella Valentova,Catherine Salmon,Barnaby James Wyld Dixson,Marina Butovskaya,Anabela Pinto Pinto,Boguslaw Pawlowski,Carol Cronin Weisfeld Pdf

Author : Hersey, Leigh Nanney,Bobick, Bryna
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781522517283

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Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art by Hersey, Leigh Nanney,Bobick, Bryna Pdf

Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development. This can be achieved through a number of methods, including avenues in the fine arts. The Handbook of Research on the Facilitation of Civic Engagement through Community Art is a comprehensive reference source for emerging perspectives on the incorporation of artistic works to facilitate improved civic engagement and social justice. Featuring innovative coverage across relevant topics, such as art education, service learning, and student engagement, this handbook is ideally designed for practitioners, artists, professionals, academics, and students interested in active citizen participation via artistic channels.

Author : Joseph P. Huston,Marcos Nadal,Francisco Mora,Luigi F. Agnati,Camilo José Cela Conde
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191648885

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Art, Aesthetics, and the Brain by Joseph P. Huston,Marcos Nadal,Francisco Mora,Luigi F. Agnati,Camilo José Cela Conde Pdf

Humans 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. Science 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? This 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Newnes
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780444537775

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Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture by Anonim Pdf

This volume emphasizes the economic aspects of art and culture, a relatively new field that poses inherent problems for economics, with its quantitative concepts and tools. Building bridges across disciplines such as management, art history, art philosophy, sociology, and law, editors Victor Ginsburgh and David Throsby assemble chapters that yield new perspectives on the supply and demand for artistic services, the contribution of the arts sector to the economy, and the roles that public policies play. With its focus on culture rather than the arts, Ginsburgh and Throsby bring new clarity and definition to this rapidly growing area. Presents coherent summaries of major research in art and culture, a field that is inherently difficult to characterize with finance tools and concepts Offers a rigorous description that avoids common problems associated with art and culture scholarship Makes details about the economics of art and culture accessible to scholars in fields outside economics

Author : Denis Dutton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781608191932

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The Art Instinct by Denis Dutton Pdf

The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived. Aesthetic taste, argues Denis Dutton, is an evolutionary trait, and is shaped by natural selection. It's not, as almost all contemporary art criticism and academic theory would have it, "socially constructed." The human appreciation for art is innate, and certain artistic values are universal across cultures, such as a preference for landscapes that, like the ancient savannah, feature water and distant trees. If people from Africa to Alaska prefer images that would have appealed to our hominid ancestors, what does that mean for the entire discipline of art history? Dutton argues, with forceful logic and hard evidence, that art criticism needs to be premised on an understanding of evolution, not on abstract "theory." Sure to provoke discussion in scientific circles and an uproar in the art world, The Art Instinct offers radical new insights into both the nature of art and the workings of the human mind.