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The Effect of Painting Beauty on Eye Movements

The current study aimed to determine relationships between oculomotor behavior and aesthetical evaluation of paintings. We hypothesized that paintings evaluated as beautiful compared to nonbeautiful would be associated with different oculomotor behavior in terms of fixation duration, viewing time, a...

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Autores principales: Jankowski, Tomasz, Francuz, Piotr, Oleś, Piotr, Chmielnicka-Kuter, Elżbieta, Augustynowicz, Paweł
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7548509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33072228
http://dx.doi.org/10.5709/acp-0298-4
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author Jankowski, Tomasz
Francuz, Piotr
Oleś, Piotr
Chmielnicka-Kuter, Elżbieta
Augustynowicz, Paweł
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description The current study aimed to determine relationships between oculomotor behavior and aesthetical evaluation of paintings. We hypothesized that paintings evaluated as beautiful compared to nonbeautiful would be associated with different oculomotor behavior in terms of fixation duration, viewing time, and temporal and spatial distribution of attention. To verify these hypotheses, we examined forty participants that looked at and evaluated 140 figurative paintings while their eye movements were recorded. To analyze data, we used divergence point analysis (DPA) and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). The results of the DPA suggested that fixation durations longer than 229 ms are sensitive to the effect of aesthetical evaluation. We also found that the effect of aesthetical evaluation was significant in the time window between 2.3 s and 19.8 s of viewing a painting. The results of the RQA suggested that the participants viewed paintings evaluated as beautiful in a more structured manner compared to those evaluated as nonbeautiful, which suggests higher involvement of top-down processes while facing beautiful artwork. We discuss and refer these results to the literature on cognitive processes related to aesthetical evaluation of paintings.
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spelling pubmed-75485092020-10-16 The Effect of Painting Beauty on Eye Movements Jankowski, Tomasz Francuz, Piotr Oleś, Piotr Chmielnicka-Kuter, Elżbieta Augustynowicz, Paweł Adv Cogn Psychol Research Articles The current study aimed to determine relationships between oculomotor behavior and aesthetical evaluation of paintings. We hypothesized that paintings evaluated as beautiful compared to nonbeautiful would be associated with different oculomotor behavior in terms of fixation duration, viewing time, and temporal and spatial distribution of attention. To verify these hypotheses, we examined forty participants that looked at and evaluated 140 figurative paintings while their eye movements were recorded. To analyze data, we used divergence point analysis (DPA) and recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). The results of the DPA suggested that fixation durations longer than 229 ms are sensitive to the effect of aesthetical evaluation. We also found that the effect of aesthetical evaluation was significant in the time window between 2.3 s and 19.8 s of viewing a painting. The results of the RQA suggested that the participants viewed paintings evaluated as beautiful in a more structured manner compared to those evaluated as nonbeautiful, which suggests higher involvement of top-down processes while facing beautiful artwork. We discuss and refer these results to the literature on cognitive processes related to aesthetical evaluation of paintings. University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw 2020-09-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7548509/ /pubmed/33072228 http://dx.doi.org/10.5709/acp-0298-4 Text en Copyright: © 2020 University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7548509/
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