REVIEW article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Cognitive Science
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1586836
COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF AESTHETIC PERCEPTION: LOCATING THE ARTISTIC BEAUTY IN THE BRAIN
Provisionally accepted
- 1Nitte Institute of Communication (NICO), Mangalore, India
- 2Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India
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In the realm of aesthetics, intellectuals and researchers were fascinated on integrating the complexity of the artistic insight, through a particular emphasis on the psychological responses elicited through the perception of countless artworks. This intellectual pursuit has captivated philosophers for many decades and more recently, has received the attention from Neurologist and scientists. Despite, scientists studying evolution have recently been concentrating on the cognitive mechanisms which strengthen the relationship in attempts to provide an explanation. The cognitive mechanisms which allow to classify the phenomena as art have not been thoroughly investigated, and there is no stipulated terminology for the processes that may explain the characteristics that make the creative experience unique to humans and shared by all people. This study will map the insights of cognitive stance of aesthetic experience and neural mechanism in the human artistic experience, in critically how this process involved in the complexity of aesthetic experience. The study adopts last two decades of research published on the relative concerns of cognition, aesthetics, perception, and the close relationship between artistic beauty and the brain.
Keywords: Cognition, aesthetics, Perception, Cognitive mechanisms, Art and brain, neuroaesthetics
Received: 03 Mar 2025; Accepted: 23 Jun 2025.
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* Correspondence:
PRADEEP K ., Nitte Institute of Communication (NICO), Mangalore, India
Satya Prasad P V, Nitte Institute of Communication (NICO), Mangalore, India
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