Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy.
Faculty of Psychology and Cognitive Science Research Hub, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2024 Jan 29;379(1895):20220410. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0410. Epub 2023 Dec 18.
In the last few years, a remarkable convergence of interests and results has emerged between scholars interested in the arts and aesthetics from a variety of perspectives and cognitive scientists studying the mind and brain within the predictive processing (PP) framework. This convergence has so far proven fruitful for both sides: while PP is increasingly adopted as a framework for understanding aesthetic phenomena, the arts and aesthetics, examined under the lens of PP, are starting to be seen as important windows into our mental functioning. The result is a vast and fast-growing research programme that promises to deliver important insights into our aesthetic encounters as well as a wide range of psychological phenomena of general interest. Here, we present this developing research programme, describing its grounds and highlighting its prospects. We start by clarifying how the study of the arts and aesthetics encounters the PP picture of mental functioning (§1). We then go on to outline the prospects of this encounter for the fields involved: philosophy and history of art (§2), psychology of aesthetics and neuroaesthetics (§3) and psychology and neuroscience more generally (§4). The upshot is an ambitious but well-defined framework within which aesthetics and cognitive science can partner up to illuminate crucial aspects of the human mind. This article is part of the theme issue 'Art, aesthetics and predictive processing: theoretical and empirical perspectives'.
在过去的几年里，来自不同视角的对艺术和美学感兴趣的学者与在预测加工 (PP) 框架内研究心智和大脑的认知科学家之间，出现了引人注目的利益和成果趋同。到目前为止，这种趋同对双方都证明是富有成效的：虽然 PP 越来越多地被采用为理解审美现象的框架，但在 PP 视角下研究的艺术和美学开始被视为了解我们心理功能的重要窗口。其结果是一个庞大且快速发展的研究计划，有望为我们的审美体验以及广泛的一般心理学现象提供重要的见解。在这里，我们介绍这个不断发展的研究计划，描述其基础并强调其前景。我们首先阐明艺术和美学研究如何遇到 PP 心智功能图景（第 1 节）。然后，我们概述了这一相遇对所涉及领域的前景：艺术哲学和艺术史（第 2 节）、审美心理学和神经美学（第 3 节）以及更广泛的心理学和神经科学（第 4 节）。其结果是一个雄心勃勃但定义明确的框架，在这个框架内，美学和认知科学可以合作，阐明人类心智的关键方面。本文是主题为“艺术、美学和预测加工：理论和实证视角”的一部分。
