Summative Comments: What Is Neuroaesthetics?

This chapter is designed to help students to integrate various strands of the knowledge gained throughout the course. It is not a chapter-lesson per se, but an invitation to ponder future research directions. The section encourages students to examine 4E (embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended) cognition theories, and to adopt a developmental perspective in the study of the origins of aesthetic experience, without imposing such an approach in their future research. A provisional answer to the question, ‘What is neuroaesthetics?’ is proposed.