ReviewFrontiers in psychology2017
Stability and Variability in Aesthetic Experience: A Review.
Review in Frontiers in psychology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Cortical dynamics of icon perception: effects of concreteness and attractiveness.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Article
- Loop and Enjoy: A Scoping Review of the Research on the Effects of Processing Fluency on Aesthetic Reactions to Auditory Stimuli.Psychological reports · 2026Article
- Effect of increasing cognitive activity participation via calligraphy practice on salient network and central executive network in older adults with subjective cognitive decline: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Embodied neuroaesthetics and the psychotherapeutic relational field.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Individual preferences for certain types of spirals and the possible role of creativity.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Experiencing art together: integrating affect and semiosis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
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- Familiarity and Novelty in Aesthetic Preference: The Effects of the Properties of the Artwork and the Beholder.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Atonal Music: Can Uncertainty Lead to Pleasure?Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
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Abstract
Based on psychophysics' pragmatic dualism, we trace the cognitive neuroscience of stability and variability in aesthetic experience. With regard to different domains of aesthetic processing, we touch upon the relevance of cognitive schemata for aesthetic preference. Attitudes and preferences are explored in detail. Evolutionary constraints on attitude formation or schema generation are elucidated, just as the often seemingly arbitrary influences of social, societal, and cultural nature are. A particular focus is put on the concept of critical periods during an individual's ontogenesis. The latter contrasting with changes of high frequency, such as fashion influences. Taken together, these analyses document the state of the art in the field and, potentially, highlight avenues for future research.
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