12/24/2023 0 Comments Artistic and aesthetic![]() ![]() That is, hypothetical changes from aesthetic indifference to caring about music, art, or beauty are judged to have a significant impact on identity. Exploring the breadth of this effect we also found an Anaesthetic Self Effect. Further studies generalize the Aesthetic Self Effect beyond the musical domain: general changes in visual art preferences, for example from more traditional to abstract art, also elicited a strong Self Effect (Study 3). Using a multidimensional scaling technique to map perceived aesthetic similarities among musical genres, we determined that aesthetic distances between genres correlate highly with the perceived difference in identity (Study 2). The Aesthetic Self Effect is as strong as the impact of moral changes, such as altering political partisanship or religious orientation, and significantly stronger than for other categories of taste, such as food preferences (Study 1). Counterfactual changes in aesthetic preferences, for example, moving from liking classical music to liking pop, are perceived as altering us as a person. To what extent do aesthetic taste and our interest in the arts constitute who we are? In this paper, we present a series of empirical findings that suggest an Aesthetic Self Effect supporting the claim that our aesthetic engagements are a central component of our identity. 4The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, United States.3Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.2Department of Philosophy, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States. ![]() 1Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.We will also create a joint Romanian-Norwegian masters level neuroaesthetics module to be taught at the University of Suceava, the first of its kind in Romania, thereby offering humanists the chance to link with science, and scientists the opportunity to benefit from the analytical depth of humanistic inquiry.Joerg Fingerhut 1* Javier Gomez-Lavin 1,2 Claudia Winklmayr 1,3 Jesse J. Our collaborative work will lead to future joint funding applications for European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants and Research Council of Norway (RCN) funding calls. The project is also one of establishing the first neuroaesthetics laboratory in Romania, now functioning at the University of Suceava with a staff of 4 researchers and as member in the project consortium next to NTNU and the University of Bergen from Norway. By contributing an answer to this first question, we will construct an empirical base for answering a second question, one that is related to the socio-political experience of the modern world: do biological universals favour cosmopolitanism over nationalism? Our overarching hypothesis is that cosmopolitanism provides an evolutionary advantage over nationalism: we, humans, need novelty and empathetic exploration as well as the empathetic familiarity of the group, but we would rather explore than remain confined within the symmetries of nationalisms and the perception of safety they engender. One is the centuries-old question, “Is aesthetic experience universal?”, which we will explore by uncovering the neurobiological bases of aesthetic pleasure derived from (1) neural mechanisms involved in the perception of rhythm, as well as from (2) memories of pleasurable bodily experiences evoked by conceptual metaphors. ![]() We will contribute answers to two questions of general human interest. ![]() PoeticA uses neuroaesthetics methods to study the universality of aesthetic experience (literary and visual arts) in individual contexts (nationalist and liberal cultures of Ireland, Britain, and Italy) in order to discuss nationalism and cosmopolitanism. ![]()
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