tailieunhanh - Artful terms: A study on aesthetic word usage for visual art versus film and music

Finally, a few words of caution. Vision is given a prominent position in aesthetics, often dominating the other senses. The present approach is similar in this, but it should be stressed that hearing, touch, smell, and even taste all are implicated in perceptual processing. The vision system in the brain is linked to the other sensory systems, which permits interaction at an early processing stage. At a later stage, visual information is integrated with other kinds of sensory information to produce multimodal perceptual experiences and mental imagery | IIÍ-PERCEPTION a Pion publication p i-Perception 2012 volume 3 pages 319-337 i0511aap ISSN 2041-6695 i-perception Artful terms A study on aesthetic word usage for visual art versus film and music M Dorothee Augustin Laboratory of Experimental Psychology University of Leuven KU Leuven Tiensestraat 102 box 3711 3000 Leuven Belgium e-mail Claus-Christian Carbon Department of General Psychology and Methodology University of Bamberg Markusplatz 3 96047 Bamberg Germany and Department of Psychology University of Pavia Piazza Botta 6 27100 Pavia Italy e-mail ccc@ Johan Wagemans Laboratory of Experimental Psychology University of Leuven KU Leuven Tiensestraat 102 box 3711 3000 Leuven Belgium e-mail Received 19 February 2012 in revised form 20 April 2012 published online 18 May 2012 Abstract. Despite the importance of the arts in human life psychologists still know relatively little about what characterises their experience for the recipient. The current research approaches this problem by studying people s word usage in aesthetics with a focus on three important art forms visual art film and music. The starting point was a list of 77 words known to be useful to describe aesthetic impressions of visual art Augustin et al 2012 Acta Psychologica 139 187-201 . Focusing on ratings of likelihood of use we examined to what extent word usage in aesthetic descriptions of visual art can be generalised to film and music. The results support the claim of an interplay of generality and specificity in aesthetic word usage. Terms with equal likelihood of use for all art forms included beautiful wonderful and terms denoting originality. Importantly emotion-related words received higher ratings for film and music than for visual art. To our knowledge this is direct evidence that aesthetic experiences of visual art may be less affectively loaded than for example .