Makin Alexis Dj, Helmy Mai, Bertamini Marco
1 Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
2 Department of Psychology, Menoufia University, Shibīn al Kawm, Egypt.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2018 Aug;71(8):1771-1780. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1350870. Epub 2018 Jan 1.
The term "Perceptual goodness" refers to the strength, obviousness, or salience of a visual configuration. Recent work has found strong agreement between theoretical, neural, and behavioural measures of perceptual goodness across a wide range of different symmetrical visual patterns. We used these pattern types again to explore the relationship between perceptual goodness and aesthetic preference. A group of 50 U.K. participants rated the patterns on a 0 to 100 scale. Preference ratings positively correlated with four overlapping measures of perceptual goodness. We then replicated this finding in Egypt, suggesting that our results reflect universal aspects of human preference. The third experiment provided consistent results with a different stimulus set. We conclude that symmetry is an aesthetic primitive that is attractive because of the way it is processed by the visual system.
术语“感知优度”指的是视觉构型的强度、明显程度或显著性。最近的研究发现，在广泛的不同对称视觉模式中，感知优度的理论、神经和行为测量之间存在很强的一致性。我们再次使用这些模式类型来探究感知优度与审美偏好之间的关系。一组50名英国参与者对这些模式进行了0到100的评分。偏好评分与感知优度的四个重叠测量指标呈正相关。然后我们在埃及重复了这一发现，表明我们的结果反映了人类偏好的普遍特征。第三个实验使用不同的刺激集得出了一致的结果。我们得出结论，对称性是一种审美原素，因其被视觉系统处理的方式而具有吸引力。
