Finney Glen Raymond, Heilman Kenneth M
Memory and Cognitive Disorders Program, Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610-0236, USA.
Cogn Behav Neurol. 2008 Mar;21(1):5-7. doi: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e3181684fe0.
To explore whether monocular viewing affects judgment of art.
Each superior colliculus receives optic nerve fibers primarily from the contralateral eye, and visual input to each colliculus activates the ipsilateral hemisphere. In previous studies, monocular viewing influenced performance on visual-spatial and verbal memory tasks.
Eight college-educated subjects, 6 men and 2 women, monocularly viewed 10 paintings with the right eye and another 10 with the left. Subjects had not previously seen the paintings. Each time, 5 paintings were abstract expressionist and 5 were impressionist. The orders of eye viewing and painting viewed were pseudorandomized and counterbalanced. Subjects rated on a 1 to 10 scale 4 qualities of the paintings: representation, aesthetics (beauty), novelty, and closure (completeness).
Paintings in the abstract expressionist style had a significant difference in the rating of novelty; the paintings were rated more novel when viewed with the left eye than with the right eye. There was a trend for rating paintings as having more closure when viewing with the right eye than with the left. Impressionist paintings show no differences.
Monocular viewing influences artistic judgments; novelty being rated higher when viewed with the left eye. Asymmetric projections from each eye and hemispheric specialization are posited to explain these differences.
探讨单眼观看是否会影响对艺术的评判。
每个上丘主要接收来自对侧眼的视神经纤维，并且每个上丘的视觉输入会激活同侧半球。在先前的研究中，单眼观看会影响视觉空间和言语记忆任务的表现。
8名受过大学教育的受试者，6名男性和2名女性，用右眼单眼观看10幅画作，并用左眼单眼观看另外10幅画作。受试者之前未曾见过这些画作。每次观看时，5幅画是抽象表现主义风格的，5幅是印象派风格的。观看眼睛和观看画作的顺序是伪随机的且相互平衡。受试者对画作的4种品质进行1至10分的评分：具象性、美学（美感）、新颖性和完整性。
抽象表现主义风格的画作在新颖性评分上存在显著差异；用左眼观看时，这些画作的新颖性评分高于用右眼观看时。在用右眼观看时，画作的完整性评分有高于用左眼观看时的趋势。印象派画作未显示出差异。
单眼观看会影响艺术评判；用左眼观看时，新颖性评分更高。推测每只眼睛的不对称投射和半球特化可以解释这些差异。
