Publication details
Opravdu máme rádi savanu? aneb Biopsychologická východiska vnímání
| Title in English | The psychobiological bases of landscape perception |
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| Year of publication | 2009 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This chapter attempts to respond to several traditional questions on the biological roots of how we perceive the landscape. It shows us possible answers that (psycho)biology can give us about our preferences - often aesthetic - for landscapes and in the landscape. The paper attempts to show how some seemingly cultural patterns or preferences have roots in our physiology or in evolutionarily beneficial strategies of behavior. On the other hand several overly reductionist results and the limits of this approach will be pointed out. The authors build upon current psychobiology (Tooby, Cosmides, Barrett, etc.), as well as upon older German biology (Lorenz). |
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