Chapter 19: Emotional Neuroaesthetics of Color Experience: Views from Single, Paired, and Complex Color Combinations
This chapter was originally published in the special collection on neuroaesthetics in PsyCh Journal. Osaka, N. (2022). Emotional neuroaesthetics of color experience: Views from single, paired, and complex color combinations. PsyCh Journal, 11(5), 628–635. https://doi.org/10.1002/pchj.577.
Colors are critical for understanding the emotional aspect of the human artistic mind, such as that found in painting a landscape, still life, or portrait. First, we report how single colors are memorized in the brain; second, how pairs of colors harmonize in the dissociated brain under the influence of the emotional brain; third, we see how colored paintings are appreciated as beautiful or ugly in the dissociated brain areas led by the intrinsic reward system in the human brain. The orbitofrontal brain is probably one of the vital brain areas that brings us a value-based reward system that makes a unique contribution to emotional neuroaesthetics.
