title: Artistic understanding as embodied simulation.
abstract: Bullot & Reber (B&R) correctly include historical perspectives into the scientific study of art appreciation. But artistic understanding always emerges from embodied simulation processes that incorporate the ongoing dynamics of brains, bodies, and world interactions. There may not be separate modes of artistic understanding, but a continuum of processes that provide imaginative simulations of the artworks we see or hear.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. gibbs@ucsc.edu
authors.forename: Raymond W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Gibbs
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003071:Cognition; D004954:Esthetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*