Emotion and aesthetics receive increasing attention from research in brain science and artificial intelligence in the last decade. Recent progress has shown that emotions are an integral part of brain functioning and behavior, and that aesthetic considerations influence our perception and decision making. This has led to the development of "affective science", an area which combines neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and art to explore the influence of emotions and aesthetics on human behavior. With its focus theme on "Emotion and Aesthetics", the IK 2012 will provide an interdisciplinary view of affective science with a range of courses from cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and neural computation. Specific courses will address the neural correlates of emotion and aesthetics, the influence of emotions on behavior and motivation, and psychological and neurobiological approaches to music and film. There will be also courses on "affective computing", a quickly developing field of artificial methods to both understand, generate and communicate emotions in a human-machine framework, including robotics approaches.

Date:

16th to 23rd March 2012

Location:

Günne at Lake Möhne

Chairs:

Fred Hamker, Justin London