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A Bodily Take on Aesthetics: Performativity and Embodied Simulation

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The notion of performativity is addressed from a neuroscientific perspective, connecting it to its underlying neural mechanisms, and to the production and reception of human cultural artifacts. The connection between action, perception and cognition and its bearing on the creation of fictional worlds and their aesthetic experience is framed within a multidisciplinary approach, as the expression of the so-called bio-cultural paradigm.

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This work was supported by Maria Paola Chiesi and by the PRIN grant on Perception, Performativity and the Cognitive Sciences.

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    Vittorio Gallese

  2. Department of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Vittorio Gallese

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Gallese, V. (2020). A Bodily Take on Aesthetics: Performativity and Embodied Simulation. In: Pennisi, A., Falzone, A. (eds) The Extended Theory of Cognitive Creativity. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, vol 23. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22090-7_9

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