What does aesthetic mean to you ... could be uninteresting to someone else.But what’s happening in your brain when you enjoy looking at something? In a new study, researchers from Germany ...

The field of “neuroaesthetics” has adopted this distinction between art and non-art objects by seeking to identify brain areas that specifically mediate the aesthetic appreciation of artworks.

On the one hand, neuroaestheticians talk about how the structure of the brain determines our range of available aesthetic experiences: for instance, we rely on our color vision to appreciate a ...

A soft forehead sticker called an e-tattoo tracks brain effort in real time. It replaces bulky EEG gear, detects fatigue ...

Chatterjee argues that pleasure-seeking lies at the root of the aesthetic experience ... is there in understanding art’s ties to the brain, when art’s livelihood seems to depend on more ...

"Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics," enlists the public as participants in a Johns Hopkins University study that looks at why the human brain is attracted to artwork.

One trait believed to differentiate humans from other primates is the ability to appreciate aesthetics. Scientists have suspected that such judgement stems from an area of the brain called the ...