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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020

The Michelangelo Effect: Art Improves the Performance in a Virtual Reality Task Developed for Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation.

Marco Iosa, Merve Aydin, Carolina Candelise, Natascia Coda, Giovanni Morone, Gabriella Antonucci, Franco Marinozzi, Fabiano Bini, Stefano Paolucci, Gaetano Tieri

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Marco IosaDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Merve AydinDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Carolina CandeliseDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Natascia CodaDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Giovanni MoroneIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Gabriella AntonucciDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Franco MarinozziDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Fabiano BiniDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Stefano PaolucciIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Gaetano TieriIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Sapienza University of Rome · ITIstituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico · ITFondazione Santa Lucia · ITUnitelma Sapienza University · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vision of an art masterpiece is associated with brain arousal by neural processes occurring quite spontaneously in the viewer. This aesthetic experience may even elicit a response in the motor areas of the observers. In the neurorehabilitation of patients with stroke, art observation has been used for reducing psychological disorders, and creative art therapy for enhancing physical functions and cognitive abilities. Here, we developed a virtual reality task which allows patients, by moving their hand on a virtual canvas, to have the illusion of painting some art masterpieces, such as The Creation of Adam of Michelangelo or The birth of Venus of Botticelli. Twenty healthy subjects (experiment 1) and four patients with stroke (experiment 2) performed this task and a control one in which they simply colored the virtual canvas. Results from User Satisfaction Evaluation Questionnaire and the NASA Task Load Index highlighted an appropriate level of usability. Moreover, despite the motor task was the same for art and control stimuli, the art condition was performed by healthy subjects with shorter trajectories (

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aestheticsartcognitionneurosciencepsychophysicsrehabilitationstrokevirtual reality

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PMID33488478
PMCPMC7817887
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