Cela-Conde Camilo J, Marty Gisèle, Maestú Fernando, Ortiz Tomás, Munar Enric, Fernández Alberto, Roca Miquel, Rosselló Jaume, Quesney Felipe
Laboratorio de Sistemática Humana, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Carretera de Valldemossa s/n, 07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Apr 20;101(16):6321-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401427101. Epub 2004 Apr 12.
Visual aesthetic perception ("aesthetics") or the capacity to visually perceive a particular attribute added to other features of objects, such as form, color, and movement, was fixed during human evolutionary lineage as a trait not shared with any great ape. Although prefrontal brain expansion is mentioned as responsible for the appearance of such human trait, no current knowledge exists on the role of prefrontal areas in the aesthetic perception. The visual brain consists of "several parallel multistage processing systems, each specialized in a given task such as, color or motion" [Bartels, A. & Zeki, S. (1999) Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. B 265, 2327-2332]. Here we report the results of an experiment carried out with magnetoencephalography which shows that the prefrontal area is selectively activated in humans during the perception of objects qualified as "beautiful" by the participants. Therefore, aesthetics can be hypothetically considered as an attribute perceived by means of a particular brain processing system, in which the prefrontal cortex seems to play a key role.
视觉审美感知（“美学”），即视觉感知添加到物体其他特征（如形状、颜色和运动）上的特定属性的能力，在人类进化谱系中被确定为一种与任何大猩猩都不共有的特征。尽管前额叶脑扩展被认为是这种人类特征出现的原因，但目前对于前额叶区域在审美感知中的作用尚无定论。视觉脑由“几个并行的多级处理系统组成，每个系统专门负责特定任务，如颜色或运动”[巴特尔兹，A. & 泽基，S.（1999年）《伦敦皇家学会学报》B辑265卷，2327 - 2332页]。在此，我们报告一项利用脑磁图进行的实验结果，该实验表明，在参与者将物体视为“美丽”的感知过程中，人类前额叶区域会被选择性激活。因此，可以假设美学是通过特定脑处理系统感知到的一种属性，其中前额叶皮层似乎起着关键作用。
