Investigating the role of working memory resources across aesthetic and non-aesthetic judgements

Bara, Ionela; Binney, Richard J.; Ramsey, Richard

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“…Given that our dependent variables are ordered categories (a 1-5 rating scale) we used ordinal regressions models. We ran two different types of ordinal regression modelsone for To build the models incrementally in complexity, we followed the same multivariate modelling strategy as in our previous work (Bara et al, 2022;2023) Factors associated with training and image type were coded according to a deviation coding style, where factors sum to zero and the intercept can then be interpreted as the grand mean and the main effects can be interpreted similarly to a conventional ANOVA (http://talklab.psy.gla.ac.uk/tvw/catpred/). As such, both training and image type were coded as -0.5 (pre/Realism) and 0.5 (post/Sorolla).…”

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Art Knowledge Training Shapes Understanding, Inspires Creativity and Stimulates Thinking

Bara,

Ramsey,

Cross

2024

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According to aesthetic cognitivism theory, art represents a source of knowledge that promotes understanding, creativity and thinking. However, it remains unclear exactly what kind of art knowledge shapes understanding and thinking. Given the important role played by the arts in acquiring knowledge and facilitating learning and understanding of human culture, this study aimed to shed light on the transformative power of knowledge acquired through art training. Via a pre-registered study, we investigated the extent to which understanding, creative inspiration, thinking, and intellectual challenge judgements are impacted by distinct types of art knowledge training (e.g., in-depth training, brief training or no training), and the extent to which each kind of training generalises to new contexts. Using a training intervention paradigm and a multi-level Bayesian modelling approach, we found that participants (N ~50 per training group) assigned higher ratings of understanding, creativity, and thinking judgements for trained rather than for untrained artworks as a function of art training type. Particularly, in-depth art knowledge training involving visual and auditory descriptions of artworks rather than no training led to greater ratings. The effects of training generalised to unseen artworks produced by the same artist but not to different artists. Compared to the no training group, these effects were most robust for in-depth than brief art training group. These findings suggest that art knowledge training promotes art understanding, creative ideas and thinking, and generalises to new settings that involve a similar artistic style. This work shines a light on the training modality and required duration of art training to shape learning and guide the generalisation effects to novel contexts.

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“…Model bg3.3 was the full model. Regarding the priors, we used a similar strategy as in our previous work (Bara et al, 2022;2023). We set priors using a weakly informative approach (Gelman, 2006).…”

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Art Knowledge Training Shapes Understanding, Inspires Creativity and Stimulates Thinking

Bara,

Ramsey,

Cross

2024

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“…Recent evidence suggests that aesthetic processing relies on working memory (WM) (e.g., Bara et al, 2022; Weigand & Jacobsen, 2022). Some differences between aesthetic judgements of liking and beauty may be due to differences in the way they engage with WM.…”

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Selective interference of liking and beauty judgements on affective working memory and visual working memory

Jiang,

Liu,

Gao

et al. 2024

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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Aesthetic processing has profound implications for everyday life. Although liking and beauty judgments are outcomes of aesthetic processing and derive from a common hedonic value, there may be some differences in how they engage working memory. This study used maintenance and aesthetic judgment tasks to examine whether liking and beauty judgments make different demands on domain-specific working memory resources. Sixty participants (30 males) were instructed to rate picture for liking or beauty while maintaining the subjective affect or brightness of the presented pictures. Results indicated that liking judgments selectively impaired participants’ performance in the affect maintenance task, and beauty judgments selectively impaired with their performance in the brightness maintenance task. Additionally, maintaining affect and brightness feelings in the mind increased image ratings on beauty but not on liking. Our findings provide evidence that liking judgments draw more on affective working memory resources than beauty judgments, and beauty judgments draw more on visual working memory resources than liking judgments.

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Investigating the automaticity of links between body perception and trait concepts

Wildman,

Ramsey

2023

Visual Cognition

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Many aspects of social cognition and behaviour have been argued to rely on automatic mechanisms. Whilst there has been an increased interest in body perception research in recent years, little is known about how automatically the processing of body shapes is linked to other social processes, such as trait inferences. In three pre-registered experiments, we tested the automaticity of links between body shape perception and trait inference by subjecting participants to differential cognitive load during a response-competition task. In Experiment 1 (N = 52), participants categorised body shapes in the context of either compatible or incompatible trait words, under high and low cognitive load. Bayesian multi-level modelling of reaction time data indicated that the interference effect caused by the compatibility of trait cues was insensitive to concurrent demands placed on working memory resources. These findings indicate that the linking of body shapes and traits is resource-light and more "automatic" in the sense that it relies minimally on executive resources. In Experiments 2 (N = 39) and 3 (N = 70), we reversed the task such that participants categorised trait words in the context of task-irrelevant body shapes. Using the same multi-level modelling approach, no evidence of interference was found, regardless of concurrent load. These results suggest that while body shapes and trait concepts can at times be linked in a highly efficient and automatic manner, such processes are sensitive to wider contextual factors, such as the order in which information is presented.

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Investigating the role of working memory resources across aesthetic and non-aesthetic judgements

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Art Knowledge Training Shapes Understanding, Inspires Creativity and Stimulates Thinking

Art Knowledge Training Shapes Understanding, Inspires Creativity and Stimulates Thinking

Selective interference of liking and beauty judgements on affective working memory and visual working memory

Investigating the automaticity of links between body perception and trait concepts

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