کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
925384 921486 2013 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
When we like what we know – A parametric fMRI analysis of beauty and familiarity
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی روانپزشکی بیولوژیکی
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When we like what we know – A parametric fMRI analysis of beauty and familiarity
چکیده انگلیسی

This paper presents a neuroscientific study of aesthetic judgments on written texts. In an fMRI experiment participants read a number of proverbs without explicitly evaluating them. In a post-scan rating they rated each item for familiarity and beauty. These individual ratings were correlated with the functional data to investigate the neural correlates of implicit aesthetic judgments. We identified clusters in which BOLD activity was correlated with individual post-scan beauty ratings. This indicates that some spontaneous aesthetic evaluation takes place during reading, even if not required by the task. Positive correlations were found in the ventral striatum and in medial prefrontal cortex, likely reflecting the rewarding nature of sentences that are aesthetically pleasing. On the contrary, negative correlations were observed in the classic left frontotemporal reading network. Midline structures and bilateral temporo-parietal regions correlated positively with familiarity, suggesting a shift from the task-network towards the default network with increasing familiarity.


► Post-scan beauty-ratings correlate with BOLD activity in right caudate and ACC.
► Familiarity ratings correlate positively with parts of the default network.
► Familiarity ratings correlate negatively with the left fronto-temporal reading network.
► Spontaneous aesthetic evaluation goes on in reading (independent of familiarity).

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Brain and Language - Volume 124, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 1–8
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