ND-0250 · 2016 · Other
Berlyne Revisited: Evidence for the Multifaceted Nature of Hedonic Tone in the Appreciation of Paintings and Music
Marin, Lampatz, Wandl et al. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 2016.
doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00536 · Finding drafted from the abstract
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What the source reports
In paintings, complexity related positively to beauty, weakly negatively to pleasantness, and not at all to liking.
Design questions and applications
Say which response is wanted before setting visual complexity.
Field
Beauty and the brain
Notes and follow-up
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