Beauty in abstract paintings: Perceptual contrast and statistical properties

In this study, we combined the behavioral and objective approach in the field of empirical aesthetics. First, we studied the perception of beauty by investigating shifts in evaluation on perceived beauty of abstract artworks (Experiment 1). Because the participants showed heterogeneous individual pr...

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Main Authors: Birgit eMallon, Christoph eRedies, Gregor Uwe Hayn-Leichsenring
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00161/full