The book, created by an international team of authors (Germany, USA, Canada, Japan, Italy, Switzerland), lays the foundations of a new scientific discipline emerging at the intersection of aesthetics and neurophysiology and called neuroaesthetics by the editors of this work. The book is intended for neurophysiologists, psychologists and art historians, it will also be of interest to any educated and inquisitive reader. BBK 28.9 K 78 UDC 577.25 +159.9 Authors: I. Rentschler, B. Herzberger, D. Epstein, G. Paul, I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt, F. Turner, E .Pöppel, W. Siegfried, G. Zollinger, G. Baumgartner, T. Selley, L. Maffei, D. Levy, M. Regard, T. Landis, 0.-J. Grüsser, T. Selke, B. Tsinda, E. Strathern, E. RozinK 78 Beauty and the brain. Biological aspects of aesthetics: Trans. from English/Ed. I. Rentschler, B. Herzberger, D. Epstein.-M.: Mir, 1995-335 pp., ill. ISBN 5-03-002403-4BBK 28.9 Editorial office of literature on biologyISBN 5-ОЗЧУ2403-4 (Russian) since 1988 Birkhauser Verlag, Basel ISBN 3-7843-1924-0 (Bue1) Gb. (mg.) c translation into Russian, Snetkov M.A., Amchenkov Yu.L., Fomina N.0" 1995