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Psychophysiological and behavioral responses to descriptive labels in modern art museums

Educational tools in art exhibitions seem crucial to improve the cultural and aesthetic experience, particularly of non-expert visitors, thus becoming a strategic goal for museums. However, there has not been much research regarding the impact of labels on the quality of visitors’ aesthetic experien...

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Autores principales: Castellotti, Serena, D’Agostino, Ottavia, Mencarini, Angelica, Fabozzi, Martina, Varano, Raimondo, Mastandrea, Stefano, Baldriga, Irene, Del Viva, Maria Michela
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10155981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37134073
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284149
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author Castellotti, Serena
D’Agostino, Ottavia
Mencarini, Angelica
Fabozzi, Martina
Varano, Raimondo
Mastandrea, Stefano
Baldriga, Irene
Del Viva, Maria Michela
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description Educational tools in art exhibitions seem crucial to improve the cultural and aesthetic experience, particularly of non-expert visitors, thus becoming a strategic goal for museums. However, there has not been much research regarding the impact of labels on the quality of visitors’ aesthetic experience. Therefore, here we compared the impact on the cognitive and emotional experience of naïve visitors between essential and descriptive labels, through multiple objective and subjective measurements, focusing on the controversial modern art museum context. We found that, after detailed descriptions, observers spend more time inspecting artworks, their eyes wander more looking for the described elements, their skin conductance and pupil size increase, and overall, they find the content less complex and more arousing. Our findings show that people do receive important benefits from reading detailed information about artworks. This suggests that elaborating effective labels should be a primary goal for museums interested in attracting a non-expert public.
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spelling pubmed-101559812023-05-04 Psychophysiological and behavioral responses to descriptive labels in modern art museums Castellotti, Serena D’Agostino, Ottavia Mencarini, Angelica Fabozzi, Martina Varano, Raimondo Mastandrea, Stefano Baldriga, Irene Del Viva, Maria Michela PLoS One Research Article Educational tools in art exhibitions seem crucial to improve the cultural and aesthetic experience, particularly of non-expert visitors, thus becoming a strategic goal for museums. However, there has not been much research regarding the impact of labels on the quality of visitors’ aesthetic experience. Therefore, here we compared the impact on the cognitive and emotional experience of naïve visitors between essential and descriptive labels, through multiple objective and subjective measurements, focusing on the controversial modern art museum context. We found that, after detailed descriptions, observers spend more time inspecting artworks, their eyes wander more looking for the described elements, their skin conductance and pupil size increase, and overall, they find the content less complex and more arousing. Our findings show that people do receive important benefits from reading detailed information about artworks. This suggests that elaborating effective labels should be a primary goal for museums interested in attracting a non-expert public. Public Library of Science 2023-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC10155981/ /pubmed/37134073 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284149 Text en © 2023 Castellotti et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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