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Notes Towards a (Neurobiological) Definition of Beauty

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Open Access
|Jul 2019

Abstract

Humans know when they themselves experience beauty, even though the term itself has been difficult to define adequately for a variety of reasons. Given this centuries’ old failure to give an adequate definition of beauty, perhaps the time has come to enquire whether the experience of beauty, regardless of its source, can be defined in neural terms.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gth-2019-0012 | Journal eISSN: 2519-5808 | Journal ISSN: 0170-057X
Language: English, German
Page range: 107 - 112
Published on: Jul 25, 2019
Published by: Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA)
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2019 Semir Zeki, published by Society for Gestalt Theory and its Applications (GTA)
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