Abstract:  From the perspective of neuroaesthetics, the mirror neuron system of human brain carries out embodied cognition through internal motion sequential encoding of perceived messages, and achieves the empathy effect between human individuals either through abstract language cognition facilitated by vocal movement representations or through emotional understanding by reading other people’s facial expressions or behaviors. In the aesthetic appreciation and creation of literature and art, the mirror neuron system not only plays an important role in embodied cognition, language cognition and empathy, but also works together with other systems like the memory system, the default system and the emotion system, to generate comprehensive, multidimensional and cross-sensory aesthetic imagery while centering on simulation motion imagery, achieving in-depth experience of aesthetic pleasures.

Key words:  aesthetic imagery, mirror neuron, emotion, cognition