审美通感的神经机制初探——从钱钟书《通感》一文说起

Preliminary Discussion about Neural Mechanisms of Aesthetic Synaesthesia——Talk about it from Qian's “Synesthesia” thesis

在审美活动中,通感状态往往代表着一种极致的审美愉悦。因而,探究其奥秘,是审美研究的重要课题之一。神经科学研究表明,脑区功能整合及其复杂神经联系,是审美通感产生的重要基础。其中,动觉机制,中脑上丘对视、听、触这几种感觉的整合,皮层中枢特别是额叶眼眶皮层对大范围感觉的增益和调制,不同感觉间相同的深层神经机制,都影响了审美通感的生成。

In aesthetic activity, Synesthesia often represents an extreme state of aesthetic pleasure. Thus, to explore its mysteries, is one of the important topics in aesthetic research. Neuroscience research shows that brain functional integration and the complexity of neural connections, is an important foundation for generation of aesthetic synesthesia. Among them, kinesthetic mechanisms in the brain; the integration functional of Midbrain superior colliculus to the feelings of vision, hearing, touch; the central cortex, particular the orbital frontal cortex gain and modulate a wide range of feelings; the same neural mechanism among the different feelings, all affect the generation of Aesthetic Synesthesia.