The brain on art: Intense aesthetic experience activates the default mode network

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APRIL 2012, 2012, Pages

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

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Default mode network; FMRI; Preference; Visual art

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ART; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EMOTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; RATING SCALE; SENSATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

EID: 84933672059     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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