The effects of stimulus complexity and meaningfulness on the anterior N2, visual exploration, and subjective interest of the viewer

Shigeto, Hanayo; Nittono, Hiroshi

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2010.06.243

Cited by 2 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In an empirical study that compared various self-reported evaluations from art experts and nonexperts, the main hypothesis was confirmed: The perceived complexity of paintings was significantly influenced by aspects of content-related processing in both experts and nonexperts. Furthermore, content-related effects were independent of the paintings’ visual complexity (cf., also Shigeto & Nittono, 2010). Hence, content-related and form related processing each contributed autonomously to overall perceived complexity.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…Content is a relevant dimension for the engagement with art (Leder, Belke, Oeberst, & Augustin, 2004; Millis, 2001; Shigeto & Nittono, 2010; Swami, 2013). To this end, Leder et al (2004) put style and content as central dimensions in their explicit classification stage, and Augustin, Leder, Hutzler, and Carbon (2008) demonstrated that variations of content are perceived much faster than variations of style.…”

Section: A Semantic Conceptualization Of Perceived Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

More than the sum of its parts: Perceiving complexity in painting.

Commare

Rosenberg

Leder

2018

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To date the complexity of an image is most often equated with its visual complexity. However, recent studies have shown that when it comes to artworks, complexity ratings are also influenced by semantic processes. The present study investigates the relationship between perceived image complexity and content-related processes in paintings by comparing ratings of perceived complexity from experts (art historians) and nonexperts. We show that the processing of the different dimensions of an artwork's content (preiconographic, iconographic, and iconological contents) all independently contribute to both groups' perceptions of an artwork's complexity. However, experts rated artworks to be less complex than nonexperts and considered different dimensions regarding the artwork's content.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: A Semantic Conceptualization Of Perceived Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%

More than the sum of its parts: Perceiving complexity in painting.

Commare

Rosenberg

Leder

2018

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…As the domain-general approach advocated, the representations of faces and objects in the occipitotemporal lobe were widely distributed and overlapping (Harris et al, 2016), and the processing of faces and words might belong to different subprocesses in the occipitotemporal pathway (Rossion et al, 2003). In short, these results supported the "subordinate-level expertise" account in that faces and words were both objects of expertise, with the same or similar processing speed; however, possibly due to the differences in the level of expertise, physical properties (Rossion, Curran, & Gauthier, 2002;Shigeto & Nittono, 2010), and belonging to different subprocesses in the object recognition system (Rossion et al, 2003), it eventually resulted in dissociated brain regions between face-and word-N170s. This could explain previous inconsistent findings between face-N170 and word-N170, with some studies showing larger face-N170 relative to word-N170 (Cao et al, 2014;Ji et al, 2016;Zhu et al, 2017) and others showing the opposite (Tanaka, 2020;Wang et al, 2011).…”

Section: Bilateral Distribution Of Face-and Word-n170s With Different...mentioning

confidence: 70%

The spatiotemporal characteristics of N170s for faces and words: A meta‐analysis study

et al. 2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

N170 is a negative event-related potential (ERP) component in response to visual stimuli, such as faces. It remains controversial whether N170 reflects the specific processing of faces or can also be elicited by objects of expertise (e.g., words). In this research, we conducted a meta-analysis for the spatiotemporal characteristics of N170 of face and word stimuli from 24 studies in which both stimuli were presented for each subject. We observed that (1) both face and word stimuli can elicit conspicuous N170s and that there was no difference between the amplitude of face-N170 and word-N170; (2) there is no difference in the latencies between the two N170s; and (3) both N170s are distributed in the occipitotemporal regions but with a reversed hemispheric distribution pattern-face-N170 is more negative in the right than left occipitotemporal regions, while word-N170 is the opposite. These results showed that the face-and word-N170s are qualitatively the same but have different hemispheric lateralization advantages-N170 might be a general neural index of the expertise-dependent object-recognition process in occipitotemporal regions.K E Y W O R D S face, meta-analysis, N170, spatiotemporal characteristics, word Weizhi Nan and Yuqi Liu contributed equally to this paper.

show abstract

The effects of stimulus complexity and meaningfulness on the anterior N2, visual exploration, and subjective interest of the viewer

Cited by 2 publications

References 0 publications

More than the sum of its parts: Perceiving complexity in painting.

More than the sum of its parts: Perceiving complexity in painting.

The spatiotemporal characteristics of N170s for faces and words: A meta‐analysis study

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About