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PSY 365 Lecture 3
Musical Aesthetics and Aesthetics of Visual Art
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aesthetics is a | branch of philosophy -psychological aesthetics: research |
| Music as Info. | Collative properties of music |
| Daniel Berlyne | landmark theorist and maestro of experimental aesthetics -use experiments to find out what people find pleasing |
| Berlyne's 3 Dimensions | -Collative -Ecological -Psychophysical |
| Collative | dealing with informational aspects like complexity, familiarity, and recency of listening to it |
| Ecological | how meaningful is this to me personally? Does it remind me of my own memories or life events? |
| Psychophysical | is it too loud or too quiet to hear? |
| Berlyne's Collative Component (1971) | focused on measuring hedonic value (liking) as a function of novelty/complexity -zero novelty is habituated/ super-boring -10 novelty is incomprehensible and weird |
| Simonton (1980) | tested Berlyne's "collative" theory using classical music -computer scored melodic originality for 15,000+ compositions from about 500 composers-based on things like similarity to other pieces, odd intervals, and chromatic notes ( out of key notes) |
| Measuring Popularity | found out how often the pieces were performed in public-popularity in repertoire |
| Simonton found that the more complex the music was, | the more people played it |
| Popular Music: Erdelyi (1940): looked at radio play rank and purchases of sheet music (by week), | found that radio plays dropped first, then sheet music purchases lagged behind -followed inverted U |
| North and Hargreaves (1995) | played "new age" music and had people rate: a) how familiar the music was, b) how complex they thought it was, c) how much they liked it -Results: people liked songs that felt "familiar" to them -complexity showed inverted U-curve |
| No music training= | less tolerance for complexity |
| North and Hargreaves: Age mattered | people liked bands popular when they were late adolescents or early adults |
| Its age you became aware of their music, | not the time they produced it |
| North, Hargreaves, and O' Neil asked over 2000 British teens about their reasons for playing their fav. music (factor analysis): 3 Main factors emerged- | 1. to protect an image/ identity reasons 2. manage your emotions, mood, or cope with life 3. personal enjoyment |
| Music and the Situation: arousal regulation may be | a role of music |
| U-shape for | familiarity, complexity, and recency |
| Sensation | is encoding into nervous system |
| Perception | is understanding whats sensed |
| Transduction | is converting one form of energy into another |
| What is light? | part of electromagnetic spectrum -only 300-700 nm visible light |
| Rods | -120+ million -help in dim light |
| Cones | -6 million -distinguish colors |
| Cones are in | fovea -center of retina -no colors at edge of vision -no colors at night |
| Perceiving Colors | long, medium, short wavelength cones-sensitive to different colors |
| Color Blindness | -Ishihara test most common color blindness is Type I -no long-wavelength cones -red and green the same |
| Honeybees see | ultraviolet- we don't |
| Tradeoff | breadth vs. detail |
| Saccades (25-100 m sec.) | -jumps of the eye -suppression of visual process (blind) |
| Fixations (200 msec) | - only 3-4 per sec. each different -we experience vision as continuous |
| Eye Movements | -must move due to small foveal region -eyes capture piece of the image; the brain gives a sense of smoothness and continuity -blisteringly fast, little feeling of doing it, involuntary -measured with eye trackers |
| Scanning Faces | eye/ mouth triangle |
| Experts and Novices look at art differently | Novice: what are the object? Objects over composition Experts: what is the overall composition?, view more picture |
| If you degrade random edges, people still figure it out. If you degrade where edges meet, | its very hard to see |
| Figure-Ground: Clarity | we use a variety of cues to decide if something is figure or background -happens automatically without conscious thought |
| Clarity | far objects are fuzzier |
| Occlusion | objects that block another object are probably closer |
| Convex | figures often convex |
| Concave | background often concave |
| Visual rightness | art is composed in a balanced way. Deviations from "rightness" make the picture look bad |
| Locher's idea | if we move some things around in real art, it'll look less "right" to us |
| Parsons' (1987) Stages: 5 developmental "stages" of reactions to art: Part 1 | 1. Freewheeling associative responses to subject matter 2. Realism and beauty. Art is to represent something 3. The experiences the art produces |
| Parsons' (1987) Stages: 5 developmental "stages" of reactions to art: Part 2 | 4. Responses to style/form of compositions, emphasizing how the medium is handled by artist 5. Autonomous reaction to art; viewer's own experience is the basis for reaction to the art |
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