Baywood Publishing Co.
Evolutionary and neurocognitive approaches to aesthetics, creativity, and the arts.
The underlying notion is that because aesthetics, art, and creativity are present in all human societies, they must have some biological and evolutionary function. The topics include an evolutionary model of artistic and musical creativity, cognitive poetics and poetry recital, the information approach to human sciences, a neural-network theory of beauty, and whether artistic creativity and affective disorders are connected. The editors are from psychology and arts, so perhaps the individual contributors are as well. (Annotation ©2008 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)