Marcos Nadal

2023

Nadal, M., & Skov, M. (2023). No sound evidence supports the notion that we can “read” art: Comment on “Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain? A review and empirical assessment of clinical case reports and published artworks for systematic evidence of quality and style changes linked to damage or neurodegenerative disease” by Pelowski et al. (2022). Physics of Life Reviews, 44, 110–112. [link]

Dorado, A., Skov, M., Rosselló, J., & Nadal, M. (2023). Defensive emotions and evaluative judgements: Sensitivity to anger and fear predicts moral judgements, whereas sensitivity to disgust predicts aesthetic judgements. British Journal of Psychology, 114, 1– 20. [link]

2022

Chuquichambi, E. G., Vartanian, O., Skov, M., Corradi, G. B., Nadal, M., Silvia, P. J., & Munar, E. (2022). How universal is preference for visual curvature? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1518, 151-165. [link]

Clemente, A., Pearce, M. T., & Nadal, M. (2022). Musical aesthetic sensitivity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 16: 58–73. [link] [preprint]

Skov, M., Vartanian, O., Navarrete, G., Modroño, C., Chatterjee, A., Leder, H., Gonzalez-Mora, J. L., & Nadal, M. (2022). Differences in regional gray matter volume predict the extent to which openness influences judgments of beauty and pleasantness of interior architectural spaces. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1507: 133-145. [link] [preprint]

2021

Gálvez-Pol, A., Nadal, M., & Kilner, J. M. (2021). Spatial maps of emotions reveal links between environment, mental health, and interoception. Scientific Reports, 11, 16150. [link]

Che, J., Sun, X., Skov, M. Vartanian, O., Rosselló, J., & Nadal, M. (2021). The role of working memory capacity in evaluative judgments of liking and beauty. Cognition and Emotion, 35, 1407-1415. [link] [preprint]

Clemente, A., Pearce, M. T., Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (2021). Evaluative judgment across domains: Liking balance, contour, symmetry and complexity in melodies and visual designs. Brain & Cognition, 151, 105729. [link] [preprint]

Skov, M., Nadal, M. (2021). The nature of beauty: behavior, cognition, and neurobiology. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1488, 44-55. [link] [preprint]

Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (2021). The nature of perception and emotion in aesthetic appreciation: A response to Makin’s challenge to Empirical Aesthetics. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15, 470–483. [link] [preprint]

2020

Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (2020). There are no aesthetic emotions: Comment on Menninghaus et al., 2019. Psychological Review, 127, 640–649. [link] [pdf]

Clemente, A., Vila-Vidal, M., Pearce, M. T., Aguiló, G., Corradi, G., & Nadal, M. (2020). A Set of 200 Musical Stimuli Varying in Balance, Contour, Symmetry, and Complexity: Behavioral and Computational Assessments. Behavior Research Methods, 52, 1491–1509. [link]

Nadal, M., Corradi, G., Barrada, J. R., Clemente, A., & Chuquichambi, E. G. (2020). Reply to Myszkowski et al. (2020). Some matters of fact concerning aesthetic sensitivity. British Journal of Psychology, 111, 663-664. [link]

Corradi, G., Chuquichambi, E. G., Barrada, J. R., Clemente, A., & Nadal, M. (2020). A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity. British Journal of Psychology, 111, 630-658. [link].

Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (2020). A farewell to art: Aesthetics as a topic in psychology and neuroscience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 630–642. [link]

Coburn, A., Vartanian, O., Kenett, Y. N., Nadal, M., Hartung, F., Hayn-Leichsenring, G., Navarrete, G., González-Mora, J. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2020). Psychological and neural responses to architectural interiors. Cortex, 126, 217-241. [link]

Cattaneo, Z., Ferrari, C., Schiavi, S., Alekseichuk, I., Antal, A., & Nadal, M. (2020). Medial prefrontal cortex involvement in aesthetic appreciation of paintings: a tDCS study. Cognitive Processing, 21, 65–76. [link].

2019

Corradi, G., Belman, M., Currò, T., Chuquichambi, E. G., Rey, C., & Nadal, M. (2019). Aesthetic sensitivity to curvature in real objects and abstract designs. Acta Psychologica, 197, 124-130 [link [pdf].

Vartanian, O., Navarrete, G., Chatterjee, A., Fich, L. B., Leder, H., Modroño, C., Rostrup, N., Skov, M., Corradi, G., & Nadal, M. (2019). Preference for curvilinear contour in interior architectural spaces: Evidence from experts and nonexperts. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13, 110-116. [link] [pdf].

Nadal, M.,  & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Neuroaesthetics and art’s diversity and universality. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Cognitive Science, 10, e1487. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1487. [link] [pdf].

2018

Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (2018). Art is not special: An assault on the last lines of defense against the naturalization of the human mind. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 29, 699-702. [pdf]

Nadal, M., Schiavi, S., & Cattaneo, Z. (2018). Hemispheric asymmetry of liking for representational and abstract paintings. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 1934-1942. [pdf]

Gómez-Puerto, G., Rosselló, J., Corradi, G., Acedo-Carmona, C., Munar, E., & Nadal, M. (2018). Preference for curved contours across cultures. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12, 432-439. [pdf]

Che, J., Sun, X., Gallardo, V., & Nadal, M. (2018). Cross-cultural empirical aesthetics. Progress in Brain Research, 237, 77-103. [pdf]

Nadal, M., & Skov, M. (2018). The pleasure of art as a matter of fact. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285, 20172252. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2017.2252 [pdf]

Nadal, M., Gallardo, V., & Marty, G. (2018). Commentary: But Is It really Art? The Classification of Images as “Art”/“Not Art” and Correlation with Appraisal and Viewer Interpersonal Differences. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 2328. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02328 [link]

2017 

Nadal, M., Vartanian, O., & Skov, M. (2017). Psychological models of art reception must be empirically grounded. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 36-37. [pdf]

Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (2017). Commentary: “What Is Art Good For? The Socio-Epistemic Value of Art”. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 602.  doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00602 [link]

Nadal, M., Gallardo, V., & Marty, G. (2017). Commentary: Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 596. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00596 [link]

Nadal, M. & Skov, M. (2017). Top-down and bottom-up: front to back. Comment on “Move me, astonish me. . . delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of top–down and bottom–up processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective, evaluative, and neurophysiological correlates” by Matthew Pelowski et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 21, 148-149. [pdf]

Ferrari, C., Nadal, M., Schiavi, S., Cela-Conde, C. J., & Cattaneo, Z. (2017). The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex mediates the intersection of ethics and aesthetics: a TMS study on the Beauty-is-Good stereotype. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12, 707-717. [pdf]

Cattaneo, Z., Schiavi, S., Silvanto, J., Nadal, M. (2017). A TMS study on the contribution of visual area V5 to the perception of implied motion in art and its appreciation. Cognitive Neuroscience, 8, 59-68. [pdf]

2016

Pearce, M. T., Zaidel, D. W., Vartanian, O., Skov, M., Leder, H., Chatterjee, A., & Nadal, M. (2016). Neuroaesthetics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 265-279. [link]

Gómez-Puerto, G., Munar, E., & Nadal, M. (2016). Preference for curvature: A historical and conceptual framework. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:712. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00712 [link]

2015

Munar, E., Gómez-Puerto, G., Call, J., & Nadal, M. (2015). Common visual preference for curved contours in humans and great apes. PLoS ONE, 10(11): e0141106. [link]

Machado, P., Romero, J., Nadal, M., Santos, A., Correia, J., & Carballal, A. (2015). Computerized measures of visual complexity. Acta Psychologica, 160, 43-57. [pdf]

Brieber, D., Leder, H., & Nadal, M. (2015). The experience of art in museums: An attempt to dissociate the role of physical context and genuineness. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 33, 95-105. [pdf]

Ferrari, C., Lega, C., Tamietto, M., Nadal, M., & Cattaneo, Z. (2015). I find you more attractive … after (prefrontal cortex) stimulation. Neuropsychologia, 72, 87-93. [pdf]

Nadal, M., & Rosselló, J. (2015). Variability and Situatedness of Human Emotions: Comment on “The quartet theory of human emotions: An integrative and neurofunctional model” by S. Koelsch et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 13, 75-76. [pdf]

Cattaneo, Z., Lega, C., Ferrari, C., Vecchi, T., Cela-Conde, C. J., Silvanto, J., & Nadal, M. (2015). The role of the lateral occipital cortex in aesthetic appreciation of representational and abstract paintings: a TMS study. Brain and Cognition, 95, 44-53. [pdf]

Brieber, D., Nadal, M., & Leder, H. (2015). In the white cube: Museum context enhances the valuation and memory of art. Acta Psychologica, 154, 36-42. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.11.004. [pdf]

Vartanian, O., Navarrete, G., Chatterjee, A., Fich, L. B., Gonzalez-Mora, J. L., Leder, H., Modroño, C., Nadal, M., Rostrup, N., & Skov, M. (2015). Architectural design and the brain: Effects of ceiling height and perceived enclosure on beauty judgments and approach-avoidance decisions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 41, 10-18. [pdf]

2014

Cattaneo, Z., Lega, C., Flexas, A., Nadal, M., Munar, E., & Cela-Conde, C. J. (2014). The world can look better: enhancing beauty experience with brain stimulation. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 9, 1704-1712. doi: 10.1093/scan/nst165. [pdf]

Leder, H., & Nadal, M. (2014). Ten years of a model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments: The aesthetic episode—developments and challenges in empirical aesthetics. British Journal of Psychology, 105, 443–464. [pdf]

Cattaneo, Z., Lega, C., Gardelli, C., Merabet, L. B., Cela-Conde, C. J. & Nadal, M. (2014). The role of prefrontal and parietal cortices in esthetic appreciation of representational and abstract art: A TMS study. Neuroimage, 99, 443–450. [pdf]

Flexas, A., Rossello-Mir, J., de Miguel, P., Nadal, M. and Munar, E. (2014). Cognitive control and unusual decisions about beauty: An fMRI study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8:520. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00520 [link]

Brieber, D., Nadal, M., Leder, H. & Rosenberg, R. (2014). Art in Time and Space: Context Modulates the Relation between Art Experience and Viewing Time. PLoS ONE, 9(6): e99019. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0099019. [link]

Christensen, J. F.; Nadal, M.; Cela-Conde, C. J. & Gomila, A. (2014). A norming study and library of 203 dance movements. Perception, 43, 178 – 206. [pdf]

2013

Flexas, A.; Rosselló, J.; Christensen, J.F.; Nadal, M.; Olivera La Rosa, A. & Munar, E. (2013). Affective priming using facial expressions modulates liking for abstract art. PLoS ONE, 8(11): e80154. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080154. [link]

Nadal, M. (2013). The experience of art: Insights from neuroimaging. Progress in Brain Research, 204, 135-158. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63287-6.00007-5. [pdf]

Vartanian, O., Navarrete, G., Chatterjee, A., Fich, L. B., Leder, H., Modrono, C., Nadal, M., Rostrup, N., & Skov, M. (2013). Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110 Suppl 2, 10446-10453. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1301227110. [pdf]

Pang, C. Y.; Nadal, M.; Müller, J. S.; Rosenberg, R. & Klein, C. (2013). Electrophysiological correlates of looking at paintings and its association with art expertise. Biological Psychology, 93, 246–254. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2012.10.013. [pdf]

Nadal, M. & Skov, M. (2013) Introduction to the Special Issue: Toward an Interdisciplinary Neuroaesthetics. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7, 1-12, doi: 10.1037/a0031842. [pdf]

Zaidel, D.; Nadal, M.; Flexas, A. & Munar, E. (2013). An Evolutionary Approach to Art and Aesthetic Experience. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7, 100-109, doi: 10.1037/a0028797. [pdf]

2012

Munar, E.; Nadal, M.; Rosselló, J.; Flexas, A.; Moratti, M.; Maestú, F.; Marty, G.; Cela-Conde, C.J. (2012). Lateral Orbitofrontal Cortex Involvement in Initial Negative Aesthetic Impression Formation. PLoS ONE, 7, e38152. [pdf]

Nadal, M.; Flexas, A.; Gálvez, A.; Cela-Conde, C.J. (2012). Neuroaesthetics: Themes from the past, current issues, and challenges for the future. Rendiconti Lincei-Scienze Fisiche e Naturali, 23, 247-258. [pdf]

Cela-Conde, C. J. & Nadal, M. (2012).Taxonomical uses of the species concept in the human lineage. Human Origins Research, 2, e1, doi:10.4081hor.2012.e2. [pdf]

Munar E.; Nadal, M.; Castellanos, N.P.; Flexas, A.; Maestú, F.; Mirasso, C. & Cela-Conde, C.J. (2012). Aesthetic appreciation: event-related field and time-frequency analyses. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:185. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00185. [pdf]

2011

Zaidel, D. W., & Nadal, M. (2011). Brain intersections of aesthetics and morals: Perspectives from biology, neuroscience, and evolution. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 54, 367-380. [pdf]

Nadal, M. & Pearce, M.T. (2011). The Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics Conference: Prospects and Pitfalls for an Emerging Field. Brain and Cognition, 76, 172–183. [pdf]

Cela-Conde, C. J.; Agnati, L.; Mora, F.; Huston, J. P. & Nadal, M. (2011). The neural foundations of aesthetic appreciation. Progress in Neurobiology, 94, 39–48. [pdf]

Forsythe, A.; Nadal, M.; Sheehy, N.; Cela-Conde, C.J. & Sawey, M. (2011). Predicting beauty: Fractal dimension and visual complexity in art. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 49-70. [pdf]

2010 and earlier

Nadal, M.; Munar, E.; Marty, G. & Cela-Conde, C.J. (2010). Visual complexity and beauty appreciation. Explaining the diverging of results. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 28, 173-191. [pdf]

Cela-Conde, C.J.; Burges, L.; Nadal, M. & Olivera, A. (2010). Altruism and fairness: Unnatural selection? Comptes Rendus Biologies, 333, 174-180.

Nadal, M.; Barceló-Coblijn, L.; Olivera, A.; Christensen, J.; Rincón-Ruíz, C. & Cela-Conde, C.J. (2009). Darwin’s legacy: A comparative approach to the evolution of human derived cognitive traits. Ludus Vitalis, 32, 145-172. [pdf]

Cela-Conde, C.J.; Maestú, F.; Mirasso, C.; Munar, E. & Nadal, M. (2009). Can fMRI Alone Identify Functional Connectivity in the Brain? Science E-letter. [link]

Cela-Conde, C.J.; Ayala, F.J.; Munar, E.; Maestú, F.; Nadal, M.; Capó, M.A.; del Río, D.; López-Ibor, J.J.; Ortiz, T.; Mirasso, C. & Marty, G. (2009). Sex-related similarities and differences in the neural correlates of beauty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, 3847-3852. [pdf]

Nadal, M.; Capó, M.A.; Munar, E. & Cela-Conde, C.J. (2009). La evolución de la apreciación estética. Estudios de Psicología, 30, 3-20.

Munar, E.; Nadal, M.; Rosselló, J. & Maestú, F. (2008). Aesthetic Perception Registered by means of Magnetoencephalography. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 10, 494-494.

Nadal, M.; Munar, E.; Capó, M.A.; Rosselló, J. & Cela-Conde, C.J. (2008). Towards a framework for the study of the neural correlates of aesthetic preference. Spatial Vision, 21, 379-396. [pdf]

Roca, M. A.; Martín-Santos, R.; Saiz, J.; Obiols, J.; Serrano, M.J.; Torrens, M.; Subirà, M.; Gili, M.; Navinés, R.; Ibáñez, A.; Nadal, M.; Barrantes, N. & Cañellas, F. (2007). Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS): Inter-rater and test-retest reliability and validity in Spanish population. European Psychiatry, 22, 44-48.

Tomàs C.; Cañellas, F.; Rodriguez, V.; Picornell, A.; Lafau, O.; Nadal, M.; Roca, M.; Serrano, M.J.; Castro, J.A. & Ramon, M.M. (2006). Genetic linkage study for Bipolar disorders on chromosomes 17 and 18 in families with a high expression of mental illness from the Balearic Islands. Psychiatric Genetics, 16, 145-151. [pdf]

Nadal, M.; Capó, M.A. & Cela-Conde, C.J. (2006). El papel de la teoría evolutiva en la antropología. Evolución, 1, 43-46.

Nadal, M.; Marty, G. & Munar, E. (2006). The search for objective measures of aesthetic judgment: The case of memory traces. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 24, 95-106. [pdf]

Nadal, M.; Amengual-Bunyola, G.A.; Ramis, C.; Capó, M. & Cela Conde, C.J. (2006). Recent genetic contributions to the study of language. Ludus Vitalis, 14, 187-204.

Capó, M.; Nadal, M. & Cela Conde, C.J. (2006). Moral Consilience. Biological Theory, 1, 133-135.

Capó, M.A.; Nadal, M.; Ramos, C.; Fernández, A. & Cela Conde, C.J. (2006). Neuroética. Derecho y Neurociencia. Ludus Vitalis, 25, 163-176.

Fernández, A.; Marty, G.; Nadal, M.; Capó, M.A. & Cela-Conde, C.J. (2005). Derecho y neurociencia. Ludus Vitalis, 23, 131-138.

Maestú, F.; González-Marqués, J.; Marty, G.; Nadal, M.; Cela Conde, C. J. & Ortiz, T. (2005). La Magnetoencefalografía: una nueva herramienta para el estudio de los procesos cognitivos básicos. Psicothema, 17, 459-464.

Marty, G.; Munar, E. & Nadal, M. (2005). Familiaridad y evaluación de estímulos estéticos en función de la educación artística. Psicothema, 17, 319-324.

Nadal-Roberts, M & Collard, M. (2005). Impact of Methodological Choices on Assessments of the Reliability of Fossil Primate Phylogenetic Hypotheses. Folia Primatologica, 76, 207-221.

Cela-Conde, C.J.; Marty, G.; Munar, E.; Nadal, M. & Burges, L. (2002). The ‘Style Scheme’ grounds perception of paintings. Perceptual and Motors Skills, 95, 91-100. [pdf].

Books, book chapters:

Skov, M. & Nadal, M. (2023). The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics. New York: Routledge. [Routledge]

Ureña, E. & Nadal, M. (2023). The evolution of sensory valuation systems. In  Skov, M. & Nadal, M. (Eds.),The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics. New York: Routledge. (pp 254-291).

Dorado, A. & Nadal, M. (2023). Neuropsychology of art and aesthetics. In  Skov, M. & Nadal, M. (Eds.),The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics. New York: Routledge. (pp 555-570).

Nadal, M. & Vartanian, O. (Eds.) (2022). The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [OUP]

Nadal, M. & Vartanian, O. (2022). Empirical Aesthetics: An overview. In M. Nadal & O. Vartanian (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp 3-38) [preprint]

Nadal, M. & Ureña, E. (2022). One hundred years of Empirical Aesthetics: Fechner to Berlyne (1876 – 1976). In M. Nadal & O. Vartanian (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp 39-82) [preprint]

Nadal, M. & Cela-Conde, C. J. (2021). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experiene. In A. Chatterjee & E. R. Cardillo (eds.), Brain, Beauty, & Art. Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp 36-39).

Nadal, M. & Pearce, M. (2021). Bringing It All Together. Neurological and Neuroimaging Evidence of the Neural Underpinnings of Visual Aesthetics. In A. Chatterjee & E. R. Cardillo (eds.), Brain, Beauty, & Art. Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp 8-12).

Nadal, M., Cattaneo, Z., & Cela-Conde, C. J. (2021). Noninvasive Brain Stimulation of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex During Aesthetic Appreciation. In A. Chatterjee & E. R. Cardillo (eds.), Brain, Beauty, & Art. Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp 97-101).

Nadal, M. & Cattaneo, Z. (2021). The Contribution of Visual Area V5 to the Perception of Implied Motion in Art and Its Appreciation. In A. Chatterjee & E. R. Cardillo (eds.), Brain, Beauty, & Art. Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus. New York: Oxford University Press. (pp 107-111).

Leder, H. & Nadal, M. (2016). Perception and art. In H. L. Miller (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. (Vol. 2, pp. 652-654). [pdf]

Huston, J. P.; Nadal, M.; Mora, F.; Agnati, L. F. & Cela-Conde, C. J. (Eds.) (2015). Art, Aesthetics and the Brain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [OUP]

Nadal, M. & Skov, M. (2015). Neuroesthetics. In J. D. Wright (editor-in-chief.) International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), Vol16. Oxford: Elsevier. (pp. 656–663). [link] [pdf]

Nadal, M. & Gómez-Puerto, G. (2014). Evolutionary approaches to art and aesthetics. In P. P. L. Tinio & J. K. Smith (Eds): The Cambridge handbook of the psychology of aesthetics and the arts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (pp. 167-194). [pdf]

Nadal, M.; Gomila, A. & Gàlvez-Pol, A. (2014). A history for neuroaesthetics. In J. O. Lauring (Ed): An introduction to neuroaesthetics: The neuroscientific approach to aesthetic experience, artistic creativity, and arts appreciation. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. (pp. 3-49). [pdf]

Nadal, M. (2014). Neuroaesthetics: Brain, beauty and art. In Brain.org. Forum Gulbenkian de Saúde 2012. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. (pp. 71-93).

Nadal, M.; Flexas, A. (2012). Bases biológicas de la creatividad. El enfoque desde la neuroestética. In: Perote Alejandre (Coord.): Creatividad y neurociencia cognitiva. Madrid: Instituto Tomás Pascual Sanz.

Burges, L.; Cela-Conde, C.J.; Nadal, M. (2012). Altruism and sexual selection. In F. de Sousa & G. Munévar (Eds.): Sex, reproduction and Darwinism. London: Pickering & Chatto. (pp. 127-140).

Munar, E.; Nadal, M. (2011). Cerebral clues on the evolution of aesthetic appreciation. In: J. Martínez Contreras & A. Ponce de León (Eds.) Darwin’s Evolving Legacy. México: Siglo XXI.

Nadal, M.; Flexas, A.; Cela-Conde, C. J. (2010). La capacidad para la apreciación estética: una evolución en mosaico. In A. Martín Araguz (Ed.): Neuroestética. Madrid: Saned SA Ediciones (pp. 15-28). [pdf]

Nadal, M.; Capó, M. A.; Munar, E.; Marty, G. & Cela Conde, C.J. (2009). Constraining hypotheses on the evolution of art and aesthetic appreciation. In M. Skov & O. Vartanian (Eds): Neuroaesthetics. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing (pp. 103-129). [pdf]

Nadal, M.; Capó, M.; Peters, A. & Cela-Conde, C.J. (2009). The Mosaic Evolution of Aesthetic Preference. In H. Høgh-Olesen, J. Tønnesvang & P. Bertelsen (Eds): Human Characteristics: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Mind and Kind. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (pp. 17-43).

Munar, E.; Rosselló, J.; Cela-Conde, C.J.; Marty, G. & Nadal, M. (2008). Modelos teóricos y neurociencia cognitiva de la percepción. In F. Maestú Unturbe, M. Ríos Lago & R. Cabestrero Alonso (Eds): Neuroimagen. Técnicas y procesos cognitivos. Barcelona: Masson-Elsevier (pp. 317-348).

Munar, E.; Rosselló, J.; Maiche, A.; Travieso, D. & Nadal, M. (2008). Modelos teóricos y neurociencia cognitiva de la percepción. In J. Tirapu Ustárrroz, M. Rios Lago & F. Maestú Unturbe (Eds): Manual de Neuropsicología. Barcelona: Viguera Editores (pp. 57-95).

Cela Conde, C.J.; Ramos, C.; Fernández, A. & Nadal, M. (2008). ¿Por qué razón hay que conservar las especies? In J. Mayol y C. Viada (Eds.): El rumbo del Arca. Palma: Conselleria de Medi Ambient del Govern de les Illes Balears (pp. 45-50).

Cela-Conde, C.J.; Capó, M.A.; Nadal, M.; Gual, J.; Fernández, M. & Ramos, C. (2007). De homínido a humano. In L. Feito (Ed.): Nuevas perspectivas científicas y filosóficas sobre el ser humano. Madrid: Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (pp. 67-92).

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