Interest in how the brain and body function during aesthetic experience has increasingly spread to different areas of neuroscience and cognitive research as well as to embodied philosophy, art history, musicology and architectural theory. Neuroaesthetics is a collective term I use here to designate various approaches that involve the study of art from the point...

Many have written of the experience of mathematical beauty as being comparable to that derived from the greatest art. This makes it interesting to learn whether the experience of beauty derived from such a highly intellectual and abstract source as mathematics correlates with activity in the same part of the emotional brain as that derived...

Las interfaces cerebro-computadora (BCI) basadas en electroence- falograma (EEG) son una alternativa que pretende integrar a las personas con discapacidad motriz severa a su entorno. Sin embargo, éstas aún no son utilizadas en la vida cotidiana por lo poco intuitivas que son las fuentes electrofisiológicas para controlarlas. Para tratar este problema, se han realizado trabajos...

After more than a decade of engineering work, researchers at Brown University and a Utah company, Blackrock Microsystems, have commercialized a wireless device that can be attached to a person’s skull and transmit via radio thought commands collected from a brain implant. Read …

But what in the brain triggers aesthetic experiences? And how does knowledge of basic brain mechanisms inform our understanding of these experiences? These questions are at the heart of an emerging discipline dedicated to exploring the neural processes underlying our appreciation and production of beautiful objects and artwork, experiences that include perception, interpretation, emotion, and...

Over the last few decades there has been steady growth in research that addresses the real-time sonification of electroencephalographic (EEG) data. Diverse application areas include medical data screening, Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), neurofeedback, affective computing and applications in the arts. [gview file=”http://interspecifics.cc/downloads/realtimesonification.pdf”]

This paper aims at naturalizing the aesthetic experience on the basis of cognitive sciences.  In traditional philosophical aesthetics, the aesthetic experience requires a specific attitude and a characteristic work of imagination.  Today, cognitive sciences offer a rich set of empirically corroborated concepts useful in explaining these notions in naturalistic terms.  This paper extends these concepts...

The original version of this monograph was written in 1989 and published in 1990. It’s purpose was to document work that had taken place since the publication of my earlier book, Biofeedback and the Arts, Results of Early Experiments in the mid-1970’s and the time of the original publication of this monograph. Subsequently, after all copies of the...

  Music’s evolutionary origin is established because it is present across all humans(meeting the biologists’ criterion of being widespread in a species); it has been around along time (refuting the notion that it is merely audio cheesecake); it involves specialized brain structures, including dedicated memory systems that can remain functional whenother memory systems fail (when a...