Martin Skov

TL;DR: The neural system supporting this modulation was investigated by presenting human subjects with artworks under different contexts whilst acquiring fMRI data, showing that prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortices recruited by aesthetic judgments are significantly biased by subjects' prior expectations about the likely hedonic value of stimuli according to their source.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the well-established effect of contour on aesthetic preference can be extended to architecture, and the combination of behavioral and neural evidence underscores the role of emotion in the authors' preference for curvilinear objects in this domain.

TL;DR: This work characterize neuroaesthetics as the cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience, drawing on long traditions of research in empirical aesthetics on the one hand and cognitive neuroscience on the other, to develop in a way that is mutually complementary to approaches in the humanities.

TL;DR: It is shown that experts and non-experts recruit bilateral medial orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and subcallosal cingulate gyrus differentially during aesthetic judgment, even in the absence of behavioural aesthetic rating differences between experts andNon-Experts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derive two possible hypotheses: (1) party cues activate heuristic processing aimed at minimizing the processing effort during opinion formation, and (2) group motivational processes that compel citizens to support the position of their party.