Activation of the prefrontal cortex in the human visual aesthetic perception
Activation of the prefrontal cortex in the human visual aesthetic perception
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DOI：
10.1073/pnas.0401427101
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发表时间：
2004-04-20
影响因子：
11.1
通讯作者：
Quesney, F
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作者：
Cela-Conde, CJ;Marty, G;Quesney, F
视觉美感（英语：Visual aesthetic perception）或视觉感知物体的其他特征（如形状、颜色和运动）的能力，在人类进化谱系中被固定为一种不与任何类人猿共享的特征。虽然前额叶脑的扩张被认为是导致这种人类特征出现的原因，但目前还没有关于前额叶区在审美感知中的作用的知识。视觉大脑由“几个并行的多级处理系统组成，每个系统专门处理给定的任务，如颜色或运动”[Bartels，A。& Zeki，S.（1999）Proc. R. Soc.伦敦系列B 265，2327-2332]。在这里，我们报告的结果进行了实验与脑磁图显示，前额叶区是有选择地激活人类在感知对象的资格为“美丽”的参与者。因此，美学可以被假设为通过特定的大脑处理系统感知的属性，其中前额叶皮层似乎起着关键作用。
Visual aesthetic perception ("aesthetics") or the capacity to visually perceive a particular attribute added to other features of objects, such as form, color, and movement, was fixed during human evolutionary lineage as a trait not shared with any great ape. Although prefrontal brain expansion is mentioned as responsible for the appearance of such human trait, no current knowledge exists on the role of prefrontal areas in the aesthetic perception. The visual brain consists of "several parallel multistage processing systems, each specialized in a given task such as, color or motion" [Bartels, A. & Zeki, S. (1999) Proc. R. Soc. London Ser. B 265, 2327-2332]. Here we report the results of an experiment carried out with magnetoencephalography which shows that the prefrontal area is selectively activated in humans during the perception of objects qualified as "beautiful" by the participants. Therefore, aesthetics can be hypothetically considered as an attribute perceived by means of a particular brain processing system, in which the prefrontal cortex seems to play a key role.