Aesthetics and morality judgments share cortical neuroarchitecture

Autor: Susanna C. Weber, Nora Heinzelmann, Philippe N. Tobler
Přispěvatelé: University of Zurich, Heinzelmann, Nora C
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
2805 Cognitive Neuroscience
Ventrolateral prefrontal cortex
Esthetics
Brain activity and meditation
Cognitive Neuroscience
media_common.quotation_subject
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Morals
decision
behavioral disciplines and activities
050105 experimental psychology
Temporoparietal cortex
3206 Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
Judgment
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
10007 Department of Economics
making
MVPA
Cortex (anatomy)
Stress (linguistics)
values
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Content (Freudian dream analysis)
media_common
Brain Mapping
3205 Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
05 social sciences
morality
Morality
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
humanities
330 Economics
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Aesthetics
aesthetics
Beauty
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Cortex. 129:484-495
ISSN: 0010-9452
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.018
Popis: Philosophers have predominantly regarded morality and aesthetics judgments as fundamentally different. However, whether this claim is empirically founded has remained unclear. In a novel task, we measured brain activity of participants judging the aesthetic beauty of artwork or the moral goodness of actions depicted. To control for the content of judgments, participants assessed the age of the artworks and the speed of depicted actions. Univariate analyses revealed whole-brain corrected, content-controlled common activation for aesthetics and morality judgments in frontopolar, dorsomedial and ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Temporoparietal cortex showed activation specific for morality judgments, occipital cortex for aesthetics judgments. Multivariate analyses revealed both common and distinct whole-brain corrected representations for morality and aesthetics judgments in temporoparietal and prefrontal regions. Overall, neural commonalities are more pronounced than predominant philosophical views would predict. They are compatible with minority accounts that stress commonalities between aesthetics and morality judgments, such as sentimentalism and a valuation framework.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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