Ten years of a model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments: The aesthetic episode – Developments and challenges in empirical aesthetics.

Helmut Leder, Marcos Nadal-Roberts

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Abstract

About a decade ago, psychology of the arts started to gainmomentumowing to a number of drives: technological progress improved the conditions under which art could be studied in the laboratory, neuroscience discovered the arts as an area of interest, and new theories offered a more comprehensive look at aesthetic experiences. Ten years ago, Leder, Belke, Oeberst, and Augustin (2004) proposed a descriptive information-processingmodel of the components that integrate an aesthetic episode. This theory offered explanations for modern art's large number of individualized styles, innovativeness, and for the diverse aesthetic experiences it can stimulate. In addition, it described howinformation is processed over the time course of an aesthetic episode, within and over perceptual, cognitive and emotional components. Here, we review the current state of themodel, and its relation to the major topics in empirical aesthetics today, including the nature of aesthetic emotions, the role of context, and the neural and evolutionary foundations of art and aesthetics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)443-464
Number of pages22
JournalBritish Journal of Psychology
Volume105
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 501001 General psychology

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