关键词: 视觉审美, 神经机制, 类脑模型, 认知模拟

Abstract: How to model the neural mechanism related to high level cognitive functions is an important crossing research direction between neuroscience and informatics, which indicates that the research on human special mind activities has reached to a new stage. Firstly, this paper summarizes the research advances of the biological foundations about visual aesthetic appreciation, and points out that the neural circuit of brain is the biological base of visual aesthetic appreciation. The function analysis of the cortexes and brain tissues related to visual aesthetic appreciation is also the base of brain-inspired computation model. Secondly, the models of brain-inspired visual aesthetic appreciation constructed from the perspectives of neuro informatics, neurocognitive science and neuroasthetic are introduced and compared. Finally, the trend of modeling of brain-inspired visual aesthetic appreciation is forecasted, and the research value is also?elucidated. The modeling of brain-inspired visual aesthetic appreciation will help to reveal the functions of the cortexes and brain tissues, and provide useful references for the modeling of neural mechanisms that are involved in high-order cogitation ability.

Key words: visual aesthetic appreciation, neural mechanism, brain-inspired model, cognitive modeling