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Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion
In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), app...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0450aap |
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description | In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), appraisal of the symbolic reality of an object (high cognitive engagement), and a strong feeling of unity with the object of aesthetic fascination and aesthetic appraisal. In a proposed model, two parallel levels of aesthetic information processing are proposed. On the first level two sub-levels of narrative are processed, story (theme) and symbolism (deeper meanings). The second level includes two sub-levels, perceptual associations (implicit meanings of object's physical features) and detection of compositional regularities. Two sub-levels are defined as crucial for aesthetic experience, appraisal of symbolism and compositional regularities. These sub-levels require some specific cognitive and personality dispositions, such as expertise, creative thinking, and openness to experience. Finally, feedback of emotional processing is included in our model: appraisals of everyday emotions are specified as a matter of narrative content (eg, empathy with characters), whereas the aesthetic emotion is defined as an affective evaluation in the process of symbolism appraisal or the detection of compositional regularities. |
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spelling | pubmed-34858142012-11-09 Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion Marković, Slobodan Iperception Research Article In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), appraisal of the symbolic reality of an object (high cognitive engagement), and a strong feeling of unity with the object of aesthetic fascination and aesthetic appraisal. In a proposed model, two parallel levels of aesthetic information processing are proposed. On the first level two sub-levels of narrative are processed, story (theme) and symbolism (deeper meanings). The second level includes two sub-levels, perceptual associations (implicit meanings of object's physical features) and detection of compositional regularities. Two sub-levels are defined as crucial for aesthetic experience, appraisal of symbolism and compositional regularities. These sub-levels require some specific cognitive and personality dispositions, such as expertise, creative thinking, and openness to experience. Finally, feedback of emotional processing is included in our model: appraisals of everyday emotions are specified as a matter of narrative content (eg, empathy with characters), whereas the aesthetic emotion is defined as an affective evaluation in the process of symbolism appraisal or the detection of compositional regularities. Pion 2012-01-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3485814/ /pubmed/23145263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0450aap Text en Copyright © 2012 S Marković http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This open-access article is distributed under a Creative Commons Licence, which permits noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction, provided the original author(s) and source are credited and no alterations are made. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Marković, Slobodan Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion |
title | Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion |
title_full | Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion |
title_fullStr | Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion |
title_full_unstemmed | Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion |
title_short | Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion |
title_sort | components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485814/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/i0450aap |
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