The Pleasure of Weeping: The Novelty of a Research

Mazzocut-Mis, Maddalena

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55123-0_10

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“…This gives reason for the transformative capabilities of the aesthetic experience, which may be due to the updating of schematic representations 150 151 152 via top-down and bottom-up effects employed during art perception 153 . Moreover, humans desire novelty, and in the case of negatively emotional artwork, the experience of the novel immorality, such as a painful experience, is in itself desirable as it gives viewers knowledge and experiences that are normally not experienced firsthand 154 . However, if negatively emotional artwork is experienced too closely, not at a psychological distance, then the pleasure diminishes, and dominates the aesthetic experience 155 156 157 .…”

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An Interdisciplinary Perspective Towards Explaining the Visual Aesthetic Experience: The Case of Emotion

Slaby

2022

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This paper discusses the empirical findings concerning the visual aesthetic experience in a neurological context. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to shed light on the common ground across neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy to pave new roads for empirical research. Cognitive models posit that the brain employs neural networks mediating bottom-up and top- down processes, and in effect, engenders emotion and reward throughout the visual aesthetic experience. Likewise, empathy and its corresponding recruitment of bodily processes may facilitate the understanding of a visual artwork’s depicted emotion, which may allow the viewer to engage with the visual artwork from a psychological distance and, consequently, to experience pleasure regardless of the visual artwork’s emotional content. In conclusion, empathetic processes may be central to the visual aesthetic experience and should be considered by future empirical research investigating the visual aesthetic experience.

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Section: Philosophical Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Interdisciplinary Perspective Towards Explaining the Visual Aesthetic Experience: The Case of Emotion

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2022

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The Pleasure of Weeping: The Novelty of a Research

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An Interdisciplinary Perspective Towards Explaining the Visual Aesthetic Experience: The Case of Emotion

An Interdisciplinary Perspective Towards Explaining the Visual Aesthetic Experience: The Case of Emotion

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