Berlyne revisited: Evidence for the multifaceted nature of hedonic tone in the appreciation of paintings and music

In his seminal book on aesthetics, Berlyne (1971) posited an inverted-U relationship between complexity and hedonic tone in arts appreciation, however, converging evidence for his theory is still missing. The disregard of the multidimensionality of complexity may explain some of the divergent result...

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Main Authors: Manuela Maria Marin, Allegra Lampatz, Michaela Wandl, Helmut Leder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00536/full