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Cognitive Motivational Relational Theories
cognitive neuroscience
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cognitive science
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Efficient Visual Processing
emotion
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Evans Mandes
evolutionary psychology
evolutionary psychology art
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Frontal Temporal Dementia
Fusiform Facial Area
Gauguin
Golden Rectangle
Horizontal Vertical Illusion
language
Lateral Geniculate Nucleus
Lavender Mist
memory
Mirror Neuron Network
Mirror Neurons
Mondrian's Broadway Boogie
Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie
Monet's Impression
Monet’s Impression
Monocular Cues
neuroscience
object recognition
Paul Gauguin
perceptual psychology
philosophical psychology
Psychological Science
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Successive Color Contrast
symmetry
visual art
visual cognition
Visual Depth Cues
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Product details
- ISBN 9781032476902
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 2023
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Interpreting Visual Art explores the psychological and cognitive mechanisms that underlie one's interpretation of art. After the brain encodes visual information, this encoding is then processed by perceptual mechanisms to identify objects and depth in pictures. The brain incorporates many factors in order for people to "see" the art. Cognitive processes have a major role in how people interpret artworks because attention, memory, and language are also linked to the aesthetic experience. Catherine Weir and Evans Mandes first examine major attributes of aesthetic judgement - balance, symmetry, color, line, and shape - from an empirical point of view as opposed to more philosophical and speculative approaches. Then, they explore the perceptual process, paying special attention to art history in the Western world and emphasizing techniques from cave paintings to modern art. The role beauty and emotions play in our interpretations of pictures have been investigated from many approaches: evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and appraisal theory. Through the application of empirical research in cognitive science to master works from Botticelli to Pollock, readers are introduced to a research-oriented understanding of how art has been perceived, interpreted, and appreciated in the twenty-first century. This book will appeal to those interested in art as well as those teaching art history, psychology, and neuroscience.
Catherine Weir, Professor of Psychology Emeritus from Colorado College, taught Perception courses at this liberal arts college and at University College London for 39 years.
Evans Mandes has taught in the psychology and studio arts programs at George Mason University for 47years. He recently retired from there as an Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Interdisciplinary Arts.
