Disliking

Klebl, Christoph; Donner, Michael; Bishnoi, Indra R.

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“…For example, whereas monetary losses appear to ac7vate the brain's pain network, with fMRI studies showing a correla7on between financial loss and ac7vity in pain-related areas such as the insula and striatum (Delgado et al, 2006;Seymour, Daw, et al, 2007;Tom et al, 2007), disliking of faces, architectural design, and visual art seems to engage the brain's disgust network. Thus, experiments have revealed that people's sensi7vity to disgust predicts their disliking for these categories of s7muli, that brief exposures to facial disgust can diminish liking for abstract art, and that disgust reac7ons predict judgments of ugliness in faces and buildings (Dorado et al, 2023;Flexas et al, 2013;Klebl et al, 2020Klebl et al, , 2023. Furthermore, in some circumstances people express liking for objects that cause fear, pain, or disgust (Andersen et al, 2020;Georgiadis et al, 2012;Herz, 2012), sugges7ng that genera7on of nega7ve states of affect does not automa7cally elicit disliking in all cases.…”

Section: Emo2onmentioning

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The Neurobiology of Processing Art

Vartanian,

Skov,

Nadal

2024

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Over the last two decades, neuroscientific research has considerably advanced our understanding of the neurobiological processes that underlie our interactions with artworks. Through a combination of behavioural and neuroimaging methods, experiments have identified sensory, perceptual, emotional and cognitive processes that make important contributions to our psychological experiences of art, in particular the emergence of aesthetic preferences. Here we conduct a selective review of this literature that will provide readers without a background in the neurosciences a first introduction into what we have learned so far. Our review is organised in three parts: First we describe research that has examined neurobiologicalprocesses involved in the sensation and perception of art. Next, we survey findings that cast light on the neural mechanisms underlying our emotional responses to art, including the contribution of the mesocorticolimbic reward circuitry to the computation of aesthetic liking. Third, we outline how cognitive processes associated with expectations, knowledge and expertise significantly influence our response to works of art. We conclude the chapter by discussing how the experience of art relies on an interdependence of sensation, emotion, and cognition, and how the major challenge of future neuroaesthetics research lies in improving our understanding of the complex interplay of these neural processes.

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The Neurobiology of Processing Art

Vartanian,

Skov,

Nadal

2024

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“…Manipulation of nuclei in this network through the use of pharmacological interventions affects both subjective liking ratings and psychophysiological measures associated with art appreciation (Ferreri et al, 2019;Laeng et al, 2021;Mallik et al, 2017;Mas-Herrero et al, 2023) in much the same way as ratings and psychophysiological measures associated with appreciation of non-art stimuli (Büchel et al, 2018;Chelnokova et al, 2014;Korb et al, 2020;Mas-Herrero et al, 2021). Emerging experimental work even suggests that experiental states that are considered paradigmatic to the aesthetic experience, such as experiencing a work of art to be beautiful Skov & Nadal, 2021a) or ugly (Dorado et al, 2023;Klebl et al, 2022), can be explained in terms of engagement of core affective processes, such as pleasure and disgust, that also underpin other supposedly non-aesthetic experiences.…”

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Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique of art therapy

Skov,

Nadal

2023

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Can art improve health and wellbeing? The rapidly growing art therapy literature claims that there is solid evidence that engaging with art ameliorates mental and physical disorders and increases wellbeing. This claim is used to justify numerous arts-based clinical interventions and health policies, so it deserves thorough scrutiny. Here we show that the evidence cited in favor of the efficacy of art therapy interventions is conceptually and methodologically flawed. Conceptually, experiments investigating the effects of arts-based interventions on health do not include appropriate tests nor control conditions that would allow demonstrating that the putative effects actually owe to the healing power of art: (i) they fail to define what art is, making it impossible to compare the effect of “art” and “non-art” stimuli and activities on health and wellbeing; (ii) they fail to demonstrate that “art” stimuli and activities elicit a distinct class of “art” experiences that modulate the mechanistic causes of disorders; (iii) and they fail to include causal manipulations of physiological processes believed to be mechanisms of action that could prove that art-induced processes affect the etiology of disorders. Methodologically, most studies cited as proof for the efficacy of art therapy lacked such common clinical trial procedures as defining the therapeutic agent, randomizing group assignment, controlling for patient or researcher allegiance, controlling for the effects of other concurrent interventions and medications, comparing art-based interventions to other kinds of interventions, or conducting and reporting statistical analyses appropriately. We conclude that there is no compelling evidence that art objects and activities can induce physiological changes to the human nervous system that result in health improvements and wellbeing. We discuss why proponents of art therapy have neglected these problems and the ethical implications for patients who are treated using art therapy.

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Disliking

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The Neurobiology of Processing Art

The Neurobiology of Processing Art

Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique of art therapy

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