Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh.
Envision Research Institute, 610 N. Main St., Wichita, KS, USA.
Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2022 Oct;22(5):904-951. doi: 10.3758/s13415-022-01004-0. Epub 2022 May 19.
This integrative review rearticulates the notion of human aesthetics by critically appraising the conventional definitions, offerring a new, more comprehensive definition, and identifying the fundamental components associated with it. It intends to advance holistic understanding of the notion by differentiating aesthetic perception from basic perceptual recognition, and by characterizing these concepts from the perspective of information processing in both visual and nonvisual modalities. To this end, we analyze the dissociative nature of information processing in the brain, introducing a novel local-global integrative model that differentiates aesthetic processing from basic perceptual processing. This model builds on the current state of the art in visual aesthetics as well as newer propositions about nonvisual aesthetics. This model comprises two analytic channels: aesthetics-only channel and perception-to-aesthetics channel. The aesthetics-only channel primarily involves restricted local processing for quality or richness (e.g., attractiveness, beauty/prettiness, elegance, sublimeness, catchiness, hedonic value) analysis, whereas the perception-to-aesthetics channel involves global/extended local processing for basic feature analysis, followed by restricted local processing for quality or richness analysis. We contend that aesthetic processing operates independently of basic perceptual processing, but not independently of cognitive processing. We further conjecture that there might be a common faculty, labeled as aesthetic cognition faculty, in the human brain for all sensory aesthetics albeit other parts of the brain can also be activated because of basic sensory processing prior to aesthetic processing, particularly during the operation of the second channel. This generalized model can account not only for simple and pure aesthetic experiences but for partial and complex aesthetic experiences as well.
这篇综合评论通过批判性地评价传统定义，提出了一个新的、更全面的定义，并确定了与之相关的基本组成部分，重新阐述了人类美学的概念。它旨在通过将审美感知与基本感知区分开来，并从视觉和非视觉模态的信息处理角度来描述这些概念，从而对这一概念有一个整体的理解。为此，我们分析了大脑信息处理的分离性质，引入了一种新的局部-整体综合模型，将审美处理与基本感知处理区分开来。该模型基于视觉美学的最新状态以及关于非视觉美学的新命题。该模型包括两个分析通道：仅美学通道和感知到美学通道。仅美学通道主要涉及质量或丰富度（例如，吸引力、美丽/漂亮、优雅、崇高、吸引力、享乐价值）分析的受限局部处理，而感知到美学通道涉及基本特征分析的全局/扩展局部处理，然后是质量或丰富度分析的受限局部处理。我们认为，审美处理独立于基本感知处理，但与认知处理不独立。我们进一步推测，在人类大脑中可能存在一种被称为审美认知能力的共同能力，用于所有感官审美，尽管由于基本感官处理，大脑的其他部分也可能被激活，尤其是在第二个通道运行期间。这个通用模型不仅可以解释简单和纯粹的审美体验，也可以解释部分和复杂的审美体验。
