ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to lay out a general framework for future neuro-aesthetic research. Modern neuroscience has come a long way in understanding how the visual system is organized in functional modules and processing streams, and how the brain recognizes objects. Neuroaesthecians have utilized this emerging understanding of how the brain handles perceptual input to suggest various models of how representations of art emanate from more basic processes. Research has shown that interactions between neurons in the inferior frontal gyms and the temporal lobe are important for the selection and integration of semantic features into larger phrasal and discursive entities. Experimental neuro-aesthetics can unveil a potential differences which, then, when fed back into the descriptions and theories of traditional aesthetics can help us enrich and modify existing concepts and models. Several neuroimaging studies indicate strongly that aesthetic values are predominantly computed by reward processes associated with such brain structures as the striatum, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and the anterior cingulate.
