Motion, emotion and empathy in esthetic experience

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 197-203

  Freedberg, David ^a   Gallese, Vittorio ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CONTEXTUAL FACTORS; ESTHETIC EXPERIENCE; VISUAL ARTWORKS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

ART; ARTICLE; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; EMPATHY; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; NEUROIMAGING; SIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

AFFECT; ART; BRAIN; EMPATHY; ESTHETICS; GESTURES; HUMANS; MOTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247473442     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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