Hearing How Smooth It Looks: Selective Attention and Crossmodal Perception in the Arts

Seeley, William P.

doi:10.7710/1526-0569.1434

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“…Art and design strategically employ formal and compositional arrangements within a medium to achieve certain behavioral effects in the audience. Seeley (2012) proposes that works of art aim "to trigger perceptual, affective, and cognitive responses diagnostic for their content in viewers, spectators, listeners, and readers." The success of art and design is often evaluated by the degree to which the audience can connect and engage with it.…”

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An Emotional Response to the Value of Visualization

Wang

Segal²,

Klatzky

et al. 2019

IEEE Comput. Grap. Appl.

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Section: The History Of Data Physicalizationmentioning

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An Emotional Response to the Value of Visualization

Wang

Segal²,

Klatzky

et al. 2019

IEEE Comput. Grap. Appl.

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A multimodal discourse theory of visual narrative

Bateman

Wildfeuer

2014

Journal of Pragmatics

117

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Attentional Engines

Seeley¹

2020

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What is it about art that can be so captivating? How is it that we find value in these often odd and abstract objects and events that we call artworks? My proposal is that artworks are attentional engines. They are artifacts that have been intentionally designed to direct attention to critical stylistic features that reveal their point, purpose, or meaning. My suggestion is that there is a lot that we can learn about art from interdisciplinary research focused on our perceptual engagement with artworks. These kinds of studies can reveal how we recognize artworks, how we differentiate them from other, more quotidian artifacts. In doing so they reveal how artworks function as a unique source of value. Our interactions with artworks draw on a broad base of shared artistic and cultural constitutive of different categories of art. Cognitive systems integrate this information into our experience of art, guiding attention, and shaping what we perceive. Our understanding and appreciation of artworks is therefore carried in our perceptual experience of them. Teasing out how this works can contribute valuable information to our philosophical understanding of art. Attentional Engines explores this interdisciplinary strategy for understanding art. It articulates a cognitivist theory of art grounded in perceptual psychology and the neuroscience attention and demonstrates its application to a range of puzzles in the philosophy of the arts, including questions about the nature of depiction, the role played by metakinesis in dance appreciation, the nature of musical expression, and the power of movies.

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Hearing How Smooth It Looks: Selective Attention and Crossmodal Perception in the Arts

Cited by 10 publications

References 24 publications

An Emotional Response to the Value of Visualization

An Emotional Response to the Value of Visualization

A multimodal discourse theory of visual narrative

Attentional Engines

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