Dijkstra Katinka, van Dongen Noah N N
Department of Psychology, Education, and Child Studies, Erasmus University RotterdamRotterdam, Netherlands.
Department of Philosophy, University of TilburgTilburg, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2017 Sep 5;8:1507. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01507. eCollection 2017.
Many visual aspects of paintings, as well as exposure to art and cultural norms, contribute to the aesthetic evaluation of paintings. The current study looked at heightened visual contrast as an important factor in the appreciation of paintings. Participants evaluated abstract digitized paintings that were manipulated in contrast for an appreciation task and were later presented with these paintings in a memory task. The results indicated that for art appreciation, a moderate increase in contrast resulted in the highest appreciation for paintings whereas recognition memory was better for paintings with a higher increase in contrast. These results replicate earlier findings with regard to the role of contrast in aesthetic perception and extend these findings by demonstrating a surprising different effect of contrast manipulation for recognition memory. Confidence with which memory decisions were made was in line with art appreciation decisions not memory performance.
绘画的许多视觉方面,以及对艺术和文化规范的接触,都有助于对绘画进行审美评价。当前的研究将增强的视觉对比度视为绘画欣赏中的一个重要因素。参与者对经过对比度处理的抽象数字化绘画进行评估,以完成一项欣赏任务,随后在记忆任务中展示这些绘画。结果表明,对于艺术欣赏而言,适度增加对比度会使绘画获得最高的评价,而对于对比度增加幅度更大的绘画,识别记忆效果更好。这些结果重复了早期关于对比度在审美感知中作用的研究发现,并通过展示对比度操纵对识别记忆产生的惊人不同效果扩展了这些发现。做出记忆决策的信心与艺术欣赏决策一致,而非与记忆表现一致。