Journal | JoLMA
Monographic journal issue | 2 | 1 | 2021
Research Article | Motoric Understanding and Aesthetic Appreciation
Abstract
Standard philosophical studies on picture perception usually investigated the peculiar nature of pictorial experience and the way aesthetic appreciation can be generated during this experience. Recently, however, the philosophical literature has also focused on a new aspect of picture perception: the possible involvement that the visual states related to action processing may actually play in pictorial experience. But this role has been studied only in relation to the understanding of the nature of pictorial experience, qua visual experience. This paper offers some preliminar speculation, which may guide future research, on the role of action in aesthetic appreciation of pictures.
Submitted: March 3, 2021 | Accepted: May 17, 2021 | Published June 30, 2021 | Language: en
Keywords Action • Visual neuroscience • Vision • Picture perception • Aesthetic appreciation
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Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Jolma/2723-9640/2021/01/007