Can neurosciences explain art? No, but it can help us to understand why some images are more memorable and, thus, more successful than others. This article aims to identify certain factors that may influence the artistic success of photographic images. These factors are discussed within the contexts of basic neuropsychological concepts, visual perception, and visual memory. A new computational and neuroscientifically based model, the predictive coding theory, provides a powerful framework for integrating social and individual factors that influence aesthetic experience and activity. A case study of Dorothea Lange's iconic photograph Migrant Mother demonstrates the importance of identifiable factors that influence and determine a photograph's potential success. We are convinced that a future systemic approach will enable the complementary integration of neuroscientific, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and sociopsychological insights through the framework of predictive coding theory with socioscientific, art‐theoretical, and art‐historical as well as neuro‐ and behavioral‐economical models.

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神经美学和摄影中的肖像。

神经科学可以解释艺术吗？不，但是它可以帮助我们理解为什么有些图像比其他图像更令人难忘，因此更成功。本文旨在确定可能影响摄影图像在艺术上取得成功的某些因素。在基本的神经心理学概念，视觉感知和视觉记忆的背景下讨论了这些因素。一种新的基于计算和神经科学的模型，即预测编码理论，为整合影响审美体验和活动的社会因素和个人因素提供了强大的框架。多萝西娅·兰格（Dorothea Lange）的标志性照片《移民母亲》的个案研究证明了影响并确定照片潜在成功的可识别因素的重要性。我们坚信，未来的系统方法将通过预测编码理论的框架，结合社会科学，艺术理论，艺术历史以及神经和行为的神经科学，知觉，认知，情感和社会心理学的见解进行互补整合。经济模型。