A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments

Leder, Helmut; Belke, Benno; Oeberst, Andries; Augustin, Marc

doi:10.1348/0007126042369811

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“…Along with its rich interconnections with the adjacent OFC (58), the ACC is hypothesized to form a functional network underlying sensory consummatory behavior (61). In combination, our results suggest that judgment of beauty for curvilinear spaces is underpinned by emotion and reward, consistent with the role that emotion is known to play in aesthetic experience (62).…”

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Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture

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Chatterjee

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Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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On average, we urban dwellers spend about 90% of our time indoors, and share the intuition that the physical features of the places we live and work in influence how we feel and act. However, there is surprisingly little research on how architecture impacts behavior, much less on how it influences brain function. To begin closing this gap, we conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging study to examine how systematic variation in contour impacts aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions, outcome measures of interest to both architects and users of spaces alike. As predicted, participants were more likely to judge spaces as beautiful if they were curvilinear than rectilinear. Neuroanatomically, when contemplating beauty, curvilinear contour activated the anterior cingulate cortex exclusively, a region strongly responsive to the reward properties and emotional salience of objects. Complementing this finding, pleasantness-the valence dimension of the affect circumplex-accounted for nearly 60% of the variance in beauty ratings. Furthermore, activation in a distributed brain network known to underlie the aesthetic evaluation of different types of visual stimuli covaried with beauty ratings. In contrast, contour did not affect approach-avoidance decisions, although curvilinear spaces activated the visual cortex. The results suggest that the well-established effect of contour on aesthetic preference can be extended to architecture. Furthermore, the combination of our behavioral and neural evidence underscores the role of emotion in our preference for curvilinear objects in this domain.neuroaesthetics | design | curvature | habitat theory

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Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture

Vartanian

Navarrete

Chatterjee

et al. 2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…This is no different in language than in, for example, vision (Hubel, 1988;Marr, 1982), music (Peretz & Coltheart, 2003), aesthetics (Leder, Belke, Oeberst, & Augustin, 2004), or social cognition . While this perspective-the multicomponent approach-seems obvious in the case of vision, it has been oddly absent from many discussions of language evolution.…”

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Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution

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The study of language evolution, and human cognitive evolution more generally, has often been ridiculed as unscientific, but in fact it differs little from many other disciplines that investigate past events, such as geology or cosmology. Well-crafted models of language evolution make numerous testable hypotheses, and if the principles of strong inference (simultaneous testing of multiple plausible hypotheses) are adopted, there is an increasing amount of relevant data allowing empirical evaluation of such models. The articles in this special issue provide a concise overview of current models of language evolution, emphasizing the testable predictions that they make, along with overviews of the many sources of data available to test them (emphasizing comparative, neural, and genetic data). The key challenge facing the study of language evolution is not a lack of data, but rather a weak commitment to hypothesistesting approaches and strong inference, exacerbated by the broad and highly interdisciplinary nature of the relevant data. This introduction offers an overview of the field, and a summary of what needed to evolve to provide our species with language-ready brains. It then briefly discusses different contemporary models of language evolution, followed by an overview of different sources of data to test these models. I conclude with my own multistage model of how different components of language could have evolved.

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“…However, people also differ and diverge about aesthetic. A common visual appearance is no longer a marker for a commonly agreed style (Leder et al, 2004) [11] . In addition, user is very anxious to use new technology in producing contents generates 'diverse' form and style on aesthetic.…”

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“…Leder et al (2004) [11] in his information-processing model of aesthetic experience shows the cognitive-processing output is aesthetic judgment and aesthetic emotion. An aesthetic experience is a cognitive processes accompanied by continuously upgrading affective states, which appraised vice versa, resulting in an [aesthetic] [23] in their study state that the process of deciding advantageously is not just logical but also emotional.…”

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Visual Aesthetic Expression on User-Generated Content by the Net Generation (Existence, Roles, and Opportunities in Cyberspace)

Amin¹

2012

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The overload content on Internet, has a direct connection with cyberspace particularly UGC. The space, the content, the creator, and the user are the complete component of cyberspace. The existence of cyberspace and its growing contents is real and overwhelming, where the creator roles is becoming demanding, and user opportunities are growing high. Visual as one of the properties of cyber contents is increasingly becoming more significant and popular amongst creator and user. Visual with aesthetic power could impress, influence, and favor biasness amongst the user. The content creator who knows how to manipulate this visuals and aesthetic expression can dominate the scenario and user who is 'expressive literate' will gain much from the scenes. User who understands visual aesthetic will be rewarded with competence, confidence, and certainly, a personality enhanced experience in carrying task when participating in this chaotic but promising cyber world. This article with the support of public-opinion polls and discussion forums explains the complete component of cyberspace, revealing some possible cognitive meanings, and emotional values behind it existence, it roles, and the opportunities offered by visual aesthetic.This is a space of opportunities where the ideal is -not 'what you want', but 'how you want it to benefits you'.

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A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments

Cited by 1,452 publications

References 59 publications

Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture

Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture

Empirical approaches to the study of language evolution

Visual Aesthetic Expression on User-Generated Content by the Net Generation (Existence, Roles, and Opportunities in Cyberspace)

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