Medial prefrontal cortex involvement in aesthetic appreciation of paintings: a tDCS study

Cattaneo, Zaira; Ferrari, Chiara; Schiavi, Susanna; Alekseichuk, Ivan; Antal, Andrea; Nadal, Marcos

doi:10.1007/s10339-019-00936-9

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“…In recent years neurosciences have extended their field of investigation to the artistic dimension (Gallese, 2000(Gallese, , 2001(Gallese, , 2012(Gallese, , 2016(Gallese, , 2017(Gallese, , 2019a(Gallese, , 2019bTicini, 2013;Cattaneo et al, 2019;Ishizu & Zeki, 2014;Di Dio et al, 2011;Kawabata & Zeki, 2004;Jacobsen et al, 2006). The term used to define this approach is "neuro-aesthetics".…”

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Bodily and Emotional Activation in Pain: Bridging Neurosciences and Gestalt Therapy to Understand the Therapist’s Wish for Help

Lobb¹,

Sciacca²,

Rosa³

et al. 2020

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Bodily and Emotional Activation in Pain: Bridging Neurosciences and Gestalt Therapy to Understand the Therapist’s Wish for Help

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Sciacca²,

Rosa³

et al. 2020

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“…(Vartanian et al, 2019), три в 2020 г. (Cattaneo et al, 2020;Coburn et al, 2020;Corradi et al, 2020) и одна в 2021 г. (Che et al, 2021).…”

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Beauty in Psychology: A Bibliometric Analysis

Nosova

Fedorov

2022

RUDN J. Psychol. Pedagog.

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The purpose of the study is to conduct a bibliometric analysis of psychological publications devoted to the phenomenon of beauty. The research material (2214 articles) was extracted from the Scopus bibliographic database. The VOSviewer and biblioshiny software tools were used to analyze the results and build a bibliometric map. The construction of a conceptual map made it possible to identify four clusters related to the study of beauty: (1) the bodily component of a person; (2) attractiveness; (3) aesthetic phenomena; and (4) sociocultural processes. Thematic clustering using the Walktrap algorithm identified four themes; with the theme with the highest density and centrality devoted to the study of attractiveness, in particular, physical attractiveness and facial attractiveness. Five countries (USA, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia) produced almost 3/4 of the total number of publications (74.2%). The contribution of Russian authors amounted to 17 articles (0.8%). Trend analysis shows that in recent years there has been a growing interest in social media, aesthetic emotions and values. It is concluded that the main phenomena that are associated with the concept of “beauty” and are studied in psychology are body image, attractiveness, physical attractiveness, facial attractiveness and aesthetics. The conducted analysis shows that beauty as a value, remaining an understudied category, is explored in the context of positive psychology.

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“…Paintings depicting human figures were not included to avoid the activation of specific neural networks devoted to human face and body processing. Although all stimuli were the work of renowned artists, we selected only relatively unknown pieces, in line with previous research (Cattaneo et al, 2017(Cattaneo et al, , 2020Cela-Conde et al, 2004. Scenes were non-artistic photographs depicting objects and outdoor environments (urban and rural scenes), with content similar to paintings but not definable as artistic production per se (see Fig.…”

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Viewing of figurative paintings affects pseudoneglect as measured by line bisection

Ciricugno¹,

Ferrari

Rusconi

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Neurologically intact individuals usually show a leftward bias in spatial attention, known as pseudoneglect, likely reflecting a right-hemisphere dominance in the control of spatial attention. A leftward bias also seems to manifest when individuals are asked to provide aesthetic judgments about visual stimuli, like artworks. However, whether artwork perception affects the allocation of spatial attention has never been directly investigated. Here, we assessed whether viewing figurative paintings affects hemispheric imbalance in the control of spatial attention by asking participants to bisect a series of lines presented on a grey background, on figurative paintings or on non-artistic photographs of real-world scenes, while either simply observing or explicitly evaluating each image. In line with previous evidence, participants showed a leftward bisection bias in the baseline condition, reflecting pseudoneglect. Critically, the presence of a painting in the background (irrespective of whether an aesthetic evaluation was required or not) significantly shifted the bias further to the left compared to when lines were bisected over a grey background (baseline) or a photographed scene. This finding suggests that perception of visual art may affect the control of spatial attention, possibly tapping on right-hemisphere resources related to visuospatial exploration, regardless of reward apprehension mechanisms (at least when images do not evoke strong emotional reactions leading to polarized like/dislike judgements).

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Medial prefrontal cortex involvement in aesthetic appreciation of paintings: a tDCS study

Cited by 8 publications

References 100 publications

Bodily and Emotional Activation in Pain: Bridging Neurosciences and Gestalt Therapy to Understand the Therapist’s Wish for Help

Bodily and Emotional Activation in Pain: Bridging Neurosciences and Gestalt Therapy to Understand the Therapist’s Wish for Help

Beauty in Psychology: A Bibliometric Analysis

Viewing of figurative paintings affects pseudoneglect as measured by line bisection

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