Aesthetic Theories

Child, Irvin L.

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“…The debate on the universality of art should not be forgotten [ 596 , 597 ]. Fundamentally, a perspective based on objective principles might be considered [ 598 ], but differences between individuals makes the artistic experience widely subjective [ 599 ], which is a circumstance echoed in architecture [ 600 ]. To deploy ideas about the universality of art requires retrospective exposition.…”

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The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

Higuera-Trujillo

Llinares

Macagno

2021

Sensors

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Humans respond cognitively and emotionally to the built environment. The modern possibility of recording the neural activity of subjects during exposure to environmental situations, using neuroscientific techniques and virtual reality, provides a promising framework for future design and studies of the built environment. The discipline derived is termed “neuroarchitecture”. Given neuroarchitecture’s transdisciplinary nature, it progresses needs to be reviewed in a contextualised way, together with its precursor approaches. The present article presents a scoping review, which maps out the broad areas on which the new discipline is based. The limitations, controversies, benefits, impact on the professional sectors involved, and potential of neuroarchitecture and its precursors’ approaches are critically addressed.

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The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

Higuera-Trujillo

Llinares

Macagno

2021

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“…It was Fechner's conviction that the knowledge thus acquired would eventually contribute to an understanding of how real works of art are evaluated. Although this viewpoint has been questioned [e.g., 2,3], research in Fechner's tradition still plays a major role in experimental aesthetics. An important part of this research dealt with the relatively complex polygonal figures [4,5] but an even larger quantity of experiments was carried out on the simplest of all shapes, isosceles triangles [6,7], ellipses [I, 8] and, above all, rectangles.…”

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The Effect of Verbal Instruction and Artistic Background on the Aesthetic Judgment of Rectangles

Hekkert

Peper²,

Wieringen³

1994

Empirical Studies of the Arts

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A review of studies on the judgment of rectangle proportions pointed out that individual differences in preference might be partly due to differences in verbal instructions given to the subjects. In the present experiment two types of instruction were used and their effects on both naive and experienced (art school) subjects were assessed. Following a subjective instruction, emphasizing personal preference, mean ratings of naive subjects revealed a preference peak around the Golden Section, whereas mean ratings of experienced viewers peaked at the square. In the objective condition, involving judgment of the goodness of proportion regardless of personal liking, the mean preferences of both groups clearly tended toward the square. Individual preference functions partly confirmed these mean patterns, but demonstrated large intersubject variability. Moreover, the naive viewers were significantly more consistent in their ratings than the experienced ones. 185

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Absorption and Trance-Inductive Poetry

Gucksohn

Tsur

Goodblatt

1991

Empirical Studies of the Arts

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This is an empirical study of trance-inductive poetry. Forty-one readers, classified as low- and high-absorption by median split, were asked to read a trance-inductive poem characterized by high metric regularity, and rate the latter on seven 7-point evaluative scales (e.g., boring-interesting). While low-absorption subjects found the poem to be boring and unpleasant, high-absorption subjects found the poem to be interesting and pleasant. We discuss how the low-absorption subjects respond to a flat sequence of monotonously rhyming lines, finding the text to be boring, while the high-absorption subjects detect a hierarchic structure in the poetic text, finding the latter to be pleasing.

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Aesthetic Theories

Cited by 3 publications

References 46 publications

The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

The Cognitive-Emotional Design and Study of Architectural Space: A Scoping Review of Neuroarchitecture and Its Precursor Approaches

The Effect of Verbal Instruction and Artistic Background on the Aesthetic Judgment of Rectangles

Absorption and Trance-Inductive Poetry

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