The experience of art. Insights from neuroimaging.

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 204, Issue , 2013, Pages 135-158

  Nadal, Marcos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Art; Brain; Neuroaesthetics; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTICIPATION; ART; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FRONTAL CORTEX; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; FUNCTIONAL DISSOCIATION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INSULA; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; ORBITAL CORTEX; PAINTING; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REWARD; STROKE PATIENT; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

AESTHETICS; ART; BRAIN; NEUROAESTHETICS; NEUROIMAGING;

ART; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84884133139     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63287-6.00007-5     Document Type: Chapter

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