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标题：Gist Perception of Image Composition in Abstract Artworks
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作者：Kana Schwabe ; Claudia Menzel ; Caitlin Mullin 等
期刊名称：i-Perception
电子版ISSN：2041-6695
出版年度：2018
卷号：9
期号：3
DOI：10.1177/2041669518780797
语种：English
出版社：Pion Ltd.
摘要：Most recent studies in experimental aesthetics have focused on the cognitive processing of visual artworks. In contrast, the perception of formal compositional features of artworks has been studied less extensively. Here, we investigated whether fast and automatic processing of artistic image composition can lead to a stable and consistent aesthetic evaluation when cognitive processing is minimized or absent. To this aim, we compared aesthetic ratings on abstract artworks and their shuffled counterparts in a gist experiment. Results show that exposure times as short as 50 ms suffice for the participants to reach a stable and consistent rating on how ordered and harmonious the abstract stimuli were. Moreover, the rating scores for the 50 ms exposure time exhibited similar dependencies on image type and self-similarity and a similar pattern of correlations between different rating terms, as the rating scores for the long exposure time (3,000 ms). Ratings were less consistent for the term interesting and inconsistent for the term pleasing. Our results are compatible with a model of aesthetic experience, in which the early perceptual processing of the formal aspects of visual artworks can lead to a consistent aesthetic judgment, even if there is no cognitive contribution to this judgment.
关键词：enstatistical image propertiesgist perceptionaestheticsabstract artaesthetic rating