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The Aesthetic Brain

By Anjan Chatterjee

How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art. Oxford University Press, 2015.

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The Aesthetic Brain

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An in-depth approach to explain humanity’s appreciation of beauty, pleasure, and art from the perspective of a neuroscientist fascinated by how the brain perceives these elements.

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Who should read The Aesthetic Brain

Scientists • artists • doctors • art enthusiasts • historians • mathematicians

About the author of The Aesthetic Brain

Anjan Chatterjee is a neuroscientist, professor of neurology at Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and the director of the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics. He has served as the president of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics and has also edited and contributed to several books in the field of neuroscience.

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