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Mystery in experimental psychology, aesthetic emotions
2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2015What are aesthetic emotions and how can they be measured? We discuss that these are emotions related to knowledge and to satisfaction of instinct for knowledge. Arguments from cognitive and mathematical models are presented that aesthetic emotions motivate us to acquire and improve knowledge.
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Experimental Aesthetics or the Science of Art
Leonardo, 1974The author discusses the part of philosophy called aesthetics and points out the difference between factual science and the philosophy of essence. He finds that the philosophy of essence is of no use in helping artists or other creative individuals to find really valuable paths to follow among the vast number of theoretically possible paths.
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Experimental Aesthetics and Liking for Music
2010Abstract The study of aesthetics, involving the creation and appreciation of art and beauty, has been approached in two distinct ways. ‘Speculative aesthetics’ is concerned with high-level, abstract questions such as the meaning and nature of art, and is dealt with in the disciplines of philosophy, art history, and art criticism ...
Hargreaves, David, North, Adrian
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The Aesthetic World in the Digital Era. A Call to Arms for Experimental Aesthetics
Reti, saperi, linguaggi, 2020The main gist of the present article consists in a call to arms for experimental aesthetics, motivated by the conviction that aesthetics is the still poorly investigated key entry point to a deeper understanding of how digital technologies shape our identity, our social relationships and the world where we are living. Aesthetics, as normally conceived,
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Gibson and the Success of Experimental Aesthetics
Leonardo, 1976It is indeed an honour to be given as much attention by James J. Gibson as he has given me in his Note [Leonardo, 8, 319 (1975)] on my recent book, Psychology and Visual Aesthetics (London: Hutchinson Educational, 1972). I am grateful to him for his appreciation and writing this word reminds me that when I was at school I was taught that to write an ...
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A defence of experimental philosophy in aesthetics
Inquiry, 2017AbstractAlthough experimental philosophy is now over a decade old, it has only recently been introduced to the domain of philosophical aesthetics. So why is there already a need to defend it? Because, as I argue in this paper, we can anticipate the three main types of objection generally addressed to experimental philosophy and show that none of them ...
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Experimental Aesthetics: Implications for Aesthetic Education of Naive Art Observers
The Journal of Psychology, 1992ABSTRACT Two experiments that evoked aesthetic judgments from naive art observers were conducted at a large midwestern university. Data analyses showed that naive art observers are sensitive to aesthetics and that people who have had little or no formal education in art or aesthetics have a basic knowledge of art.
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Recent Developments in Experimental Aesthetics
1981The D. E. Berlyne Laboratory of Aplopathematic and Thelematoscopic Pneumatology at the University of Toronto was, for a relatively brief period, the most active North American center for experimental aesthetics research. This chapter will outline and summarize some of the recent work by lab members, focusing on the period between the publication of our
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The Experimental Aesthetics of the Magnificent Ambersons
EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES IN IMAGINATIVE CULTUREThe Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles, 1942) is an incomplete film. It is not one of the many unfinished films in Welles’s career that never reached their audiences, but it was not completed – and evidently not appreciated – by the director. “RKO destroyed Ambersons, and the picture itself destroyed me”, he explains in an interview, as a big portion ...
Elif Akcali, Defne Tüzün
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