title: Psychological and neural responses to art embody viewer and artwork histories.
abstract: The research programs of empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics have reflected deep concerns about viewers' sensitivities to artworks' historical contexts by investigating the impact of two factors on art perception: viewers' developmental (and educational) histories and the contextual histories of artworks. These considerations are consistent with data demonstrating that art perception is underwritten by dynamically reconfigured and evolutionarily adapted neural and psychological mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto-Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario M1C 1A4, Canada. oshinv1@mac.com
authors.forename: Oshin
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Vartanian
authors.forename: James C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Kaufman
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003071:Cognition; D004954:Esthetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*