"7591","Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe","So the central question here is phenomenological: What is the nature of the aesthetic zap? For it is this experience, or its promise, which gives art such a deep hold on human life. But the issue of representation, while secondary, is still pregnant with cognitive implications: Why is representation, of all the devices available to an artist, more likely to shift the odds in favour of eliciting and/or intensifying aesthetic experience? Assuming a Darwinian view of our species, it is likely that the answer to both questions will come from understanding how our capacity to enjoy art grows out of normal cognition.","http://cogprints.org/7591/","Mangan, Dr. Bruce B.","UNSPECIFIED","       <span class=\"person_name\">Mangan, Dr. Bruce B.</span>     (2008)  <a href=\"http://cogprints.org/7591/\"><em>Representation, Rightness, and the Fringe.</em></a>       [Journal (Paginated)]           ","mangan@cogsci.berkeley.edu","2008"