Does beauty capture the eye, even if it's not (overtly) adaptive? A comparative eye-tracking study of spontaneous attention and visual preference with VAST abstract art

Author(s)
Aleksandra Mitrovic, Lisa Mira Hegelmaier, Helmut Leder, Matthew Pelowski
Organisation(s)
Department for Teacher Education, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology
Journal
Acta Psychologica
Volume
209
No. of pages
10
ISSN
0001-6918
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103133
Publication date
09-2020
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
501006 Experimental psychology
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/does-beauty-capture-the-eye-even-if-its-not-overtly-adaptive-a-comparative-eyetracking-study-of-spontaneous-attention-and-visual-preference-with-vast-abstract-art(238c0bd5-e742-4a46-a00a-dc514698eeb4).html