Neuroesthetics is not just about art

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Zaidel, Dahlia W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention attraction; Beauty and brain; Biology and esthetics; Brain and art; Esthetics and brain

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; COOPERATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ESTHETICS; FRIENDSHIP; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; LIFE EVENT; MATE CHOICE; MENTAL CAPACITY; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROGENY; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVAL; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 84933673302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00080     Document Type: Article

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