| Journal: | Ludus vitalis |
| Database: | CLASE |
| System number: | 000405341 |
| ISSN: | 1133-5165 |
| Authors: | Vartanian, Oshi1 Navarrete, Goka2 Chatterjee, Anjan3 Brorson Fich, Lars4 Leder, Helmut5 Modrono, Cristian2 Nadal, Marcos5 Rostyru, Nicolai6 Skov, Martin7 |
| Institutions: | 1University of Toronto, Departamento de Psicologia, Toronto, Ontario. Canadá 2Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. España 3University of Pennsylvania, Departamento de Neurología, Filadelfia, Pensilvania. Estados Unidos de América 4Aalborg University, Aalborg, Nordjyllands. Dinamarca 5Universitat Wien, Facultad de Psicología, Viena. Austria 6Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhague. Dinamarca 7University of Copenhagen, Copenhague. Dinamarca |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Volumen: | 21 |
| Number: | 40 |
| Pages: | 367-390 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico |
| English abstract | On average, we urban dwellers spend about 90% of our time Indoors, and share the intuition that the physical features of the places we live and work in influence how we feel and act. However, there is surprisingly little research on how architecture impacts behavior, much less on how it influences brain function. To begin closing this gap, we conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging study to examine how systematic variation in contour impacts aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions, outcome measures of interest to both architects and users of spaces alike. As predicted, participants were more likely to judge spaces as beautiful if they were curvilinear than rectilinear. Neuroanatomically, when contemplating beauty, curvilinear contour activated the anterior cingulate cortex exclusively, a region strongly responsive to the reward properties and emotional salience of objects. Complementing this finding, pleasantness—the valence dimension of the affect circumplex—accounted for nearly 60% of the variance in beauty ratings. Furthermore, activation in a distributed brain network known to underlie the aesthetic evaluation of different types of visual stimuli covaried with beauty ratings. In contrast, contour did not affect approach-avoidance decisions, although curvilinear spaces activated the visual cortex. The results suggest that the well-established effect of contour on aesthetic preference can be extended to architecture. Furthermore, the combination of our behavioral and neural evidence underscores the role of emotion in our preference for curvilinear objects in this domain |
| Disciplines: | Filosofía, Arte |
| Keyword: | Estética, Arquitectura, Juicios estéticos, Neuroestética, Diseño, Obra artística |
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