Human Evolution and Cognition Group, IFISC, University of the Balearic Islands - CSIC, Palma, Spain.
Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2018 Oct;25(5):1934-1942. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1390-9.
Although the neural correlates of the appreciation of aesthetic qualities have been the target of much research in the past decade, few experiments have explored the hemispheric asymmetries in underlying processes. In this study, we used a divided visual field paradigm to test for hemispheric asymmetries in men and women's preference for abstract and representational artworks. Both male and female participants liked representational paintings more when presented in the right visual field, whereas preference for abstract paintings was unaffected by presentation hemifield. We hypothesize that this result reflects a facilitation of the sort of visual processes relevant to laypeople's liking for art-specifically, local processing of highly informative object features-when artworks are presented in the right visual field, given the left hemisphere's advantage in processing such features.
尽管过去十年中，人们对审美品质的神经相关性进行了大量研究，但很少有实验探索潜在过程中的半球不对称性。在这项研究中，我们使用了分视场范式来测试男性和女性对抽象和具象艺术作品的偏好的半球不对称性。当代表现性画作在右视野呈现时，男性和女性参与者都更喜欢代表画作，而对抽象画作的偏好则不受呈现视野的影响。我们假设，这一结果反映了一种促进作用，即当艺术作品在右视野呈现时，与艺术相关的视觉过程（特别是对高度信息量的物体特征的局部处理）会得到促进，因为左半球在处理此类特征方面具有优势。
