Cognitive Aesthetics WF-FI-KGN-EK
The recognition that art is a world-wide human activity with a forty-thousand-year history demands that one starts asking questions about its origins and significance. Why is it so widespread? Why are its manifestations in different places and at different times so varied, yet contain universal principles? Why has it appeared as an indelible part of human life in the first place? The similarities that we find in artistic processes and products speak in favour of art’s rootedness in fundamental mechanisms of biological and sensory experience of the world. This course aims to answer some of these questions using the latest research from psychology, biology, the neurosciences, and cognitive science, as well as art history and aesthetics.
E-Learning
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Opis nakładu pracy studenta w ECTS
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Efekty kształcenia
Student…
rekonstruuje i omawia kluczowe idee oraz argumenty wybranych autorów rozpoznając stosowane przez nich strategie interpretacyjne i typy argumentacji.
przygotowuje krótkie opracowanie problemu z zakresu kognitywistyki na podstawie samodzielnie wyszukanych i ocenionych źródeł elektronicznych i bibliotecznych
Kryteria oceniania
Course Requirements:
1. Participation, including in-class discussion – 15 points
2. Quizzes (3 at 15 points each) – 45 points
3. Final Exam – 40 points
Participation: Students will be randomly called on to respond to questions in class. When you are called on, if you are present and make an effort to answer, you will receive participation credit whether or not you know the correct answer.
Quizzes: Grading will be based on performance on unannounced quizzes and in-class assignments.
Final Test: This will be an exam testing your knowldge of basic terms and concepts and asking you to synthesize learned ideas during the course.
Na ocenę końcową składają się:
1. Obecność na zajęciach – 15 pkt
2. Bieżące testy– 45 pkt (3x15)
3. Udział w egzaminie pisemnym – 40 pkt
Final grade is calculated as follows: Skala ocen końcowa:
<50 pkt 2.0 – niedostateczny
50-59 pkt 3.0 – dostateczny
60-69 pkt 3.5 – dostateczny plus
70-79 pkt 4.0 – dobry
80-89 pkt 4.5 – dobry plus
>90 pkt 5.0 – bardzo dobry
Literatura
Literatura obowiązkowa
1. Merlin Donald (1991). Origins of the Modern Mind. Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. Harvard University Press, Excerpts
2. Ellen Dissanayake (2012). Art and Intimacy. How the Arts Began. University of Washington Press, Excerpts.
3. J. Toobi and L. Cosmides, ‘Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds?’. Substance 94/95 (2001). Article
4. F. Turner and E. Poeppel, ’Metered Poetry, the Brain, and Time’. (1988). Article in Beauty and the Brain: Biological Aspects of Aesthetics.
5. R. J. Zatorre (2023). From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It. Excerpts
6. D. Huron (2006). Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation. Chapter 1.
7. D. Huron ‘An Instinct for Music: Is Music an Evolutionary Adaptation?. 1999 Ernest Bloch Lectures. Available Online
8. Robert Solso (1996). Cognition and the Visual Arts. Excerpts
9. S. Zeki. Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain. Excerpts
10. E. Wassiliwizky and W. Menninghaus (2021). ‘Why and How Should Cognitive Science Care about Aesthetics?’. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 25, No 6.
11. C. Durt, T. Fuchs and C. Thewes (eds). (2017). Embodiment, Enaction, and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World. Selected chapters
12. E. Rietveld (2022). ‘The Affordances of Art for Making Technologies’. Adaptive Behavior.
13. L. Malafouris. (2014). ‘Creative Thinging:The Feeling of and for Clay’. Pragmatics and Cognition. 22 (1), pp. 140-158.
Literatura uzupełniająca
1. A. Chatterjee. (2014). The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art.
2. R. Solso. (1994). The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain
3. D. Freedberg and V. Gallese ‘(2007). ‘Motion, Emotion, and Empathy in Esthetic Response’. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, vol. 11 (5).
Więcej informacji
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