Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Neuroimage. 2011 Sep 1;58(1):250-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.06.012. Epub 2011 Jun 15.
We present here the most comprehensive analysis to date of neuroaesthetic processing by reporting the results of voxel-based meta-analyses of 93 neuroimaging studies of positive-valence aesthetic appraisal across four sensory modalities. The results demonstrate that the most concordant area of activation across all four modalities is the right anterior insula, an area typically associated with visceral perception, especially of negative valence (disgust, pain, etc.). We argue that aesthetic processing is, at its core, the appraisal of the valence of perceived objects. This appraisal is in no way limited to artworks but is instead applicable to all types of perceived objects. Therefore, one way to naturalize aesthetics is to argue that such a system evolved first for the appraisal of objects of survival advantage, such as food sources, and was later co-opted in humans for the experience of artworks for the satisfaction of social needs.
我们在这里呈现了迄今为止最全面的神经美学处理分析，报告了对四个感觉模态的 93 个正价审美评价的神经影像学研究的基于体素的荟萃分析结果。结果表明，在所有四个模态中最一致的激活区域是右侧前岛叶，该区域通常与内脏感知有关，尤其是负价（厌恶、疼痛等）。我们认为，审美处理本质上是对感知对象的价值的评价。这种评价绝不仅限于艺术品，而是适用于所有类型的感知对象。因此，将美学自然化的一种方法是认为这样的系统首先是为了评价对生存有利的对象而进化的，例如食物来源，然后在人类中被用于体验艺术品以满足社会需求。
