Expressive perception as projective imagining

TY - JOUR

T1 - Expressive perception as projective imagining

AU - Noordhof, Paul

PY - 2008/6

Y1 - 2008/6

N2 - I argue that our experience of expressive properties (such as the joyfulness or sadness of a piece of music) essentially involves the sensuous imagination (through simulation) of an emotion-guided process which would result in the production of the properties which constitute the realisation of the expressive properties experienced. I compare this proposal with arousal theories, Wollheim's Freudian account, and other more closely related theories appealing to imagination such as Kendall Walton's. I explain why the proposal is most naturally developed in terms of simulation and briefly comment upon the impact of work on cross-cultural perception of facial expression, modularity and autism for the proposal.

AB - I argue that our experience of expressive properties (such as the joyfulness or sadness of a piece of music) essentially involves the sensuous imagination (through simulation) of an emotion-guided process which would result in the production of the properties which constitute the realisation of the expressive properties experienced. I compare this proposal with arousal theories, Wollheim's Freudian account, and other more closely related theories appealing to imagination such as Kendall Walton's. I explain why the proposal is most naturally developed in terms of simulation and briefly comment upon the impact of work on cross-cultural perception of facial expression, modularity and autism for the proposal.

KW - MUSIC

KW - EMOTION

KW - ART

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=43949113294&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2008.00346.x

DO - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2008.00346.x

M3 - Article

SN - 0268-1064

VL - 23

SP - 329

EP - 358

JO - Mind and Language

JF - Mind and Language

IS - 3

ER -