Luo Youjing, Yu Qianqian, Wu Shuyi, Luo Yue-Jia
School of Psychology, Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Department of Psychology, New York University, New York 10003, NY, USA; Department of Psychology, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
School of Psychology, Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China; Cognitive and Brain Function Laboratory, Shenzhen Mental Health Center/Shenzhen Kangning Hospital, Shenzhen, 518060, China.
Neuroimage. 2025 Jan;305:120962. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2024.120962. Epub 2024 Dec 3.
Aesthetic experiences are characterized by a conscious, emotionally and hedonically rewarding perceptions of a stimulus's aesthetic qualities and are thought to arise from a unique combination of cognitive and affective processes. To pinpoint neural correlates of aesthetic experiences, in the present study, we performed a series of meta-analyses based on the existing functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) studies of art appreciation in visual art (34 experiments, 692 participants) and music (34 experiments, 718 participants). The Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) analyses showed that the frontal pole (FP), ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) were commonly activated in visual-art-induced aesthetic experiences, whilst bilateral superior temporal gyrus (STG) and striatal areas were commonly activated in music appreciation. Additionally, task-independent Resting-state Functional Connectivity (RSFC), task-dependent Meta-analytical Connectivity Modelling (MACM) analyses, as well as Activation Network Modeling (ANM) further showed that visual art and music engaged quite distinct brain networks. Our findings support the domain-specific view of aesthetic appreciation and challenge the notion that there is a general "common neural currency" for aesthetic experiences across domains.
审美体验的特点是对刺激的审美品质有自觉的、情感上和享乐主义上有益的感知，并且被认为是由认知和情感过程的独特组合产生的。为了确定审美体验的神经关联，在本研究中，我们基于现有的关于视觉艺术（34项实验，692名参与者）和音乐（34项实验，718名参与者）欣赏的功能磁共振成像（fMRI）研究进行了一系列荟萃分析。激活可能性估计（ALE）分析表明，前额叶极（FP）、腹内侧前额叶皮层（vmPFC）和额下回（IFG）在视觉艺术引发的审美体验中通常被激活，而双侧颞上回（STG）和纹状体区域在音乐欣赏中通常被激活。此外，任务无关的静息态功能连接（RSFC）、任务相关的荟萃分析连接建模（MACM）分析以及激活网络建模（ANM）进一步表明，视觉艺术和音乐涉及截然不同的脑网络。我们的研究结果支持审美欣赏的领域特定观点，并挑战了跨领域审美体验存在一般“通用神经货币”的观念。
