Aesthetics in Art: a Neuroscientific View

It has often been claimed that beauty, objectively determined, does not exist because of profound subjective differences in the evaluation of what is beautiful and what is not. Although individual biases are undeniable, it is also rather implausible to maintain that beauty is merely a conventional, experientially determined concept. As Gombrich (1984) wrote, elements in a picture which determine aesthetical experience are deeply involved in our biological heritage , although we are unable to give a conscious explanation to them.

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Cinzia Di Dio was born in Italy in 1973. She graduated in Psychological Sciences and obtained an MSc in Research Methods from the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She received a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Parma, Italy. Presently she is involved in neuroscientific research with particular interest in the field of neuroaesthetics.