Visual Preference for Curvature and Art Paintings: Some Data

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Author
Vañó-Viñuales, Javier
Pepperell, Robert
Corradi, Guido B.
Gómez-Puerto, Gerardo
Munar, Enric
Date
2015-08Acceptance date
2015
Type
Poster
Publisher
Sage
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The visual preference for curvature is a human phenomenon that has been found on numerous studies.
After the success of Bar and Neta (2006) on finding the preference for curvature using sharp-angled and
curved versions of the same object, our research group replicated those results using the same stimuli but
with a forced choice task in an approach-avoidance framework. With this new task, the effect of
preference for curvature was also found in short exposure times: 40 and 80 miliseconds. Next we decided
to apply the same paradigm but using art paintings. Pairs of similar abstract art images –a curved version
and a sharp-angled one- were created. We used both color and black and white paintings. Only a weak
effect was found in the color pairs with 40 ms exposure time. After these results we have revised the
paradigm: (a) modifiyng some edges in sharp-angled images to have a more analogous set of curved
images and (b) using a Likert scale with the aim to simulate art appreciation.
Journal/conference proceeding
Perception;1P1M111
Citation
Vañó-Viñuales, J., Pepperell, R., Corradi, G.B., Gómez-Puerto, G. and Munar, E. (2015) 'Visual Preference for Curvature and Art Paintings: Some Data', Perception 44 (1) Supplement : 38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, p.30
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This poster was presented at 38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP) 2015 Liverpool, abstract published in Perception on 21 August 2015
Sponsorship
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
This study was funded by research grants FFI2010-20759 and FFI2013-43270-P from the Spanish Government, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (http://mineco.gob.es).
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