Musings About Beauty

Cognitive Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 635-654

  Kintsch, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Beauty; Complexity theory; Harmony; Mental representations

Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

ART; BEAUTY; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY;

EID: 84860563477     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2011.01229.x     Document Type: Article

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