title: Art appreciation and aesthetic feeling as objects of explanation.
abstract: The target article presents a thought-provoking approach to the relation of neuroscience and art. However, at least two issues pose potential difficulties. The first concerns whether "art appreciation" is a coherent topic for scientific study. The second concerns the degree to which processing fluency can explain aesthetic feeling or may simply be one component of a more complex account.
authors.affiliation: Department of English, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-4025, USA. patrick.hogan@uconn.edu
authors.forename: Patrick Colm
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Hogan
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003071:Cognition; D004954:Esthetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*