Chatterjee Anjan
Department of Neurology, Pennsylvania Hospital, Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Br J Psychol. 2014 Nov;105(4):465-7. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12086.
Leder and Nadal (2014, this issue) examine the current state of scientific aesthetics through the lens of a prescient psychological model proposed 10 years ago. These retrospective points to several future directions of which I touch on three: the nature of aesthetic emotions, the time course of emotions in aesthetic episodes, and the relationship of art and evolution.