This work comments at first, the history of cognitive sciences from cybernetics to, first, the so called “cognitivism”; secondly, to what we might call “connectionism”; and, finally, to the present day, which is marked by a multiplicity of research directions in which a strong tendency to review the previous paradigms is outlined. In a second moment, the text aims to discuss the influence of cognitive sciences on the theories of art and aesthetics.
cognitive science; research and art; theories of art and aesthetics