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

Author(s)
Helmut Leder, Marcos Nadal-Roberts
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.

Organisation(s)
Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
Journal
British Journal of Psychology
Volume
105
Pages
443-464
No. of pages
22
ISSN
0007-1269
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12084
Publication date
2014
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
501001 General psychology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Psychology(all)
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/ten-years-of-a-model-of-aesthetic-appreciation-and-aesthetic-judgments-the-aesthetic-episode--developments-and-challenges-in-empirical-aesthetics(3f9809cb-c519-48cd-95ee-14e4125bb415).html