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What Could a Cognitive Science of Aesthetics Mean? with Anjan Chatterjee
What is happening in the mind when art “moves” us? In this short documentary we follow neuroscientist and neuroaesthetics pioneer Anjan Chatterjee as he tests a bold idea: that aesthetic experience—beauty, wonder, even transcendence—can be investigated with the tools of cognitive science, linking subjective feeling to measurable brain processes.