What Do You Mean When You Say You Like This Painting? Oculomotor Indices of Processes Involved in Aesthetical Appreciation

Q4 Psychology

Roczniki Psychologiczne Pub Date : 2022-03-01 DOI:10.18290/rpsych21242-7s

Piotr Francuz, T. Jankowski, Paweł Augustynowicz

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Abstract

This study aims to verify the hypotheses concerning emotional and cognitive predictors of aesthetic judgments, operationalized by instructions for viewing paintings from different perspectives (emotions and feelings, empathy, the captured moment, important elements, title, and mystery). Two eye movement parameters: fixation duration average and scan path length, estimated based on data recorded during viewing paintings, were analyzed. The extent to which the parameters of eye movement while performing different instructions predict the same parameters during the aesthetic assessment task was investigated. It was assumed that similar parameters of eye movements are indicators of similar mental processes, activated under different instructions. The viewing time window and expertise of participants were independent variables. Data were analyzed by multilevel modeling. The results showed that at the early stage of viewing a painting, instructions that activate emotional processing (regardless of expertise), better predict the aesthetic evaluation of a painting than instructions activating cognitive processes. At this stage, it was also found that the eye movement parameters, during the performance of instructions that activate cognitive processing, better predict the aesthetic evaluation of paintings only in the group trained in visual arts. At the later stage of viewing paintings, instructions activating cognitive processes turned out to be more reliable predictors of eye movement parameters during the aesthetic evaluation task than instructions activating emotional processes in both groups of participants. The results of the experiment were confronted with the existing models of perception of art and aesthetic experience.

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你说你喜欢这幅画是什么意思？审美过程的眼动指标

本研究旨在验证关于审美判断的情感和认知预测因素的假设，这些假设通过从不同角度（情感和感受、同理心、捕捉的时刻、重要元素、标题和神秘感）观看绘画的说明来操作。分析了两个眼动参数：注视持续时间平均值和扫描路径长度，这两个参数是根据观看绘画过程中记录的数据估计的。研究了在审美评估任务中，在执行不同指令时眼动参数预测相同参数的程度。人们认为，相似的眼球运动参数是相似心理过程的指标，在不同的指令下被激活。观看时间窗口和参与者的专业知识是自变量。通过多层次建模对数据进行分析。结果表明，在观看绘画的早期阶段，激活情绪处理的指令（无论专业知识如何）比激活认知过程的指令更好地预测绘画的审美评价。在这个阶段，我们还发现，只有在接受过视觉艺术训练的群体中，在执行激活认知处理的指令时，眼动参数才能更好地预测绘画的审美评价。在观看绘画的后期，在审美评估任务中，激活认知过程的指令比激活情绪过程的指令更可靠地预测眼动参数。实验的结果是面对现有的艺术感知和审美体验的模型。

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期刊介绍： Roczniki Psychologiczne / Annals of Psychology, the continuation of Annals of Philosophy: Psychology, is an academic journal edited by The Scientific Society of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin [Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL]. It aims to present up-to-date and original empirical results and influential theoretical considerations in various areas of psychology as well as to promote new and creative ideas in research and psychological methods. The Journal accepts contributions of three kinds: 1) original peer reviewed articles on both empirical and conceptual topics, 2) short communications, and 3) polemics, which consist of a focus article followed by peer commentaries and a response by the author of the focus article.