Cela-Conde Camilo José, Ayala Francisco J
CLASSY (Center for the Scientific Study of Creativity: Literature, Arts and Science), School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States.
CLASSY (Center for the Scientific Study of Creativity: Literature, Arts and Science), School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States.
Prog Brain Res. 2018;237:41-60. doi: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.013. Epub 2018 Apr 25.
The competence for appreciating beauty appears to be a human universal trait. This fact points out to a phylogenetically derived capacity that, somehow, evolved by means of natural selection. To detail how this evolutionary process took place is difficult to determine, because appreciating beauty is an elusive capacity, impossible to be detected in the fossil record. However, efforts have been made to understand the main characteristics of such competence, particularly by means of the advances of neuroaesthetics. Here, we examine some of the results obtained in experimental research to identify neural correlations of the appreciation of beauty, as well as archaeological and paleoanthropological proofs of the relationship existing between production of artistic objects and evolution of the human brain.
欣赏美的能力似乎是人类普遍具有的一种特质。这一事实表明存在一种系统发育衍生的能力，这种能力不知何故是通过自然选择进化而来的。详细说明这个进化过程是如何发生的很难确定，因为欣赏美是一种难以捉摸的能力，无法在化石记录中被检测到。然而，人们已经努力去理解这种能力的主要特征，特别是借助神经美学的进展。在这里，我们审视了实验研究中获得的一些结果，以确定欣赏美时的神经关联，以及艺术作品的创作与人类大脑进化之间关系的考古学和古人类学证据。
