Just in time : : temporality, aesthetic experience, and cognitive neuroscience / / G. Gabrielle Starr.

• VerfasserIn: Starr, G. Gabrielle, 1974-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : The MIT Press,, 2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The MIT Press
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 pages)

Literature and neuroscience come together to illuminate the human experience of beauty, which unfolds in time. How does beauty exist in time This is Gabrielle Starr's central concern in Just in Time as she explores the experience of beauty not as an abstraction, but as the result of psychological and neurological processes in which time is central. Starr shows that aesthetic experience has temporal scale. Starr, a literary scholar and pioneer in the field and method of neuroaesthetics, which seeks the neurological basis of aesthetic experience, applies this methodology to the study of beauty in literature, considering such authors as Dawoud Bey, Rita Dove, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Henry James, Toni Morrison, and Wallace Stevens, as well as the artist Jasper Johns. Just in Time is richly informed by the methods and findings of neuroscientists, whose instruments let them investigate encounters with art down to the millisecond, but Starr goes beyond the laboratory to explore engagements with art that unfold over durations experiments cannot accommodate. In neuroaesthetics, Starr shows us, the techniques of the empirical sciences and humanistic interpretation support and complement one another. To understand the temporal quality of aesthetic experience we need both cognitive and phenomenological approaches, and this book moves boldly toward their synthesis.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction: Aesthetic Time and How We Use It -- 1 On Pleasure, Motivation, and Aesthetic Time -- 2 Goals, Genres, and Orders -- 3 Goal Time: Varying Maxima and Aesthetic Experiences -- 4 Coda: Future Present -- Appendix 1: Table of Key Brain Regions and Networks -- Appendix 2: Experimental Materials and Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.