Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Human and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, LL57 2AS, United Kingdom.
Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Human and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, LL57 2AS, United Kingdom.
Neuropsychologia. 2022 Aug 13;173:108288. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108288. Epub 2022 Jun 9.
Given that aesthetic experiences typically involve extracting meaning from environment, we believe that semantic cognition research has much to offer the field of neuroaesthetics. In the current paper, we propose a generalised framework that is inspired by the semantic cognition literature and that treats aesthetic experience as just one example of how meaning accumulates. According to our framework, aesthetic experiences are underpinned by the same cognitive and brain systems that are involved in deriving meaning from the environment in general, such as modality-specific conceptual representations and controlled processes for retrieving the appropriate type of information. Our generalised semantic cognition view of aesthetic experience has substantial implications for theory development: it leads to novel, falsifiable predictions and it reconfigures foundational assumptions regarding the structure of the cognitive and brain systems that may be involved in aesthetic experiences.
鉴于审美体验通常涉及从环境中提取意义，我们相信语义认知研究为神经美学领域提供了很多启示。在本文中，我们提出了一个受语义认知文献启发的通用框架，将审美体验视为意义积累的一种方式。根据我们的框架，审美体验是由参与从环境中获取意义的相同认知和大脑系统支持的，例如特定于模态的概念表示和检索适当类型信息的受控过程。我们对审美体验的广义语义认知观点对理论发展具有重要意义：它导致了新的、可证伪的预测，并重新配置了关于可能涉及审美体验的认知和大脑系统结构的基本假设。
