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ArticleFrontiers in human neuroscience2013

Clive Bell's "Significant Form" and the neurobiology of aesthetics.

Semir Zeki

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Article in Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Music Listening and Homeostatic Regulation: Surviving and Flourishing in a Sonic World.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  8. Computational and Experimental Approaches to Visual Aesthetics.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2017
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Semir ZekiWellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London London, UK.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 091593
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Though first published almost one century ago, and though its premise has been disputed, Clive Bell's essay on aesthetics in his book Art still provides fertile ground for discussing problems in aesthetics, especially as they relate to neuroesthetics. In this essay, I begin with a brief account of Bell's ideas on aesthetics, and describe how they focus on problems of importance to neuroesthetics. I also examine where his premise falls short, and where it provides significant insights, from a neuroesthetic and general neurobiological point of view.

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beautybodiesfacesneuroestheticssignificant configurationvisual brainvisual motion

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PMID24273502
PMCPMC3824150

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