Art reaches within: Aesthetic experience, the self and the default mode network

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 7 DEC, 2013, Pages

  Vessel, Edward A ^a   Starr, G Gabrielle ^a   Rubin, Nava ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Art; Default mode network; FMRI; Individual differences; Medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC); Neuroaesthetics; Self relevance; Visual

Indexed keywords

ART; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ESTHETICS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENTAL TASK; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROAESTHETICS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THINKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84897496205     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00258     Document Type: Review

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