[CogSci] Theme issue on "Art, aesthetics and predictive processing" out on Phil Trans B

[Jacopo Frascaroli]

Dear CSS Members,

(with apologies for cross-posting)

This is just to let you know that a new theme issue on "Art, aesthetics and
predictive processing: theoretical and empirical perspectives
<https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/379/1895>" has recently
been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. The
issue was edited by Helmut Leder, Elvira Brattico, Sander Van de Cruys and
myself and contains a great array of contributions on the emergent
encounter between predictive processing and the arts and aesthetics.

An abstract of the theme issue is included below fyi. Most of the papers
(including our introduction
<https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0410>) are
available open access.

With all best wishes,
Jacopo Frascaroli

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Abstract: "In the last few years, a remarkable convergence of interests and
results has emerged between scholars interested in the arts and aesthetics
from a variety of perspectives and cognitive scientists studying the mind
and brain within the Predictive Processing framework. The result is a vast
and fast-growing research programme that promises to deliver important
insights into our aesthetic behaviours as well as a wide range of
psychological phenomena of general interest, including perception,
cognition, learning, attention, curiosity, affect, motivation, well-being,
and the dynamics of sub-personal and person-level experience. This theme
issue provides a timely synthesis of this ambitious research programme,
laying down a framework within which aesthetics and cognitive science can
partner up to illuminate crucial aspects of the human mind."

-- 
Jacopo Frascaroli
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Turin
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