An aesthetic experience is, in general, a perceptual experience that is evaluative and affectively absorbing and engages comprehension (meaning) processes (22, 23
Aesthetic experiences often have a significant conceptual component, such as during encounters with conceptual art or abstract mathematical problem solving (24, 25), and may also emerge in response to imagined objects. Such experiences may include feelings of pleasure or beauty from engaging with an object, and judgments of liking or attractiveness...
Is there a domain-general brain system that represents aesthetic appeal regardless of aesthetic domain, or, alternately, do different aesthetic domains engage domain-specific processes for aesthetic valuation? A number of studies on decision-making point to a region of the ventral or anterior medial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC/aMPFC) as containing a d...
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