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Dupuy EG, Vincent T, Lecchino C, Boisvert A, Trépanier L, Nadeau S, de Guise E, Bherer L. Prefrontal engagement predicts the effect of museum visit on psychological well-being: an fNIRS exploration. Front Psychiatry 2024; 15:1263351. [PMID: 38501080 PMCID: PMC10944881 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1263351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2024] [Indexed: 03/20/2024] Open
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Recent research suggests that museum visits can benefit psychological well-being by reducing symptoms of stress and anxiety. However, these reported relaxing effects remain inconsistent between studies. Shedding light on the underlying cerebral mechanisms of museum visits might support a better understanding of how it affects psychological well-being. This study aimed to investigate the prefrontal engagement evoked by artwork analysis during a museum visit and to determine if these prefrontal substrates are associated with the museum's effect on psychological well-being in older adults. Nineteen adults aged between 65 and 79, toured a Baroque-style exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts for approximately 20 minutes while equipped with a near-infrared spectroscopy system measuring the prefrontal cortex's hemodynamic activity. For each painting, participants received the instruction to either (1): analyze the painting and produce a personal interpretation of its signification (analytic condition) or (2) visualize the painting without any specific thoughts (visualization condition). Questionnaires measuring stress, anxiety, and well-being were administered before and after the visit. Sixteen older women (71.5 ± 4 years) were included in the analyses. Results showed that, at the group level, the analytic condition was associated with an increased activation pattern in the left ventrolateral prefrontal region, typically related to attentional processes (not observed in the visualization condition). The activation associated with the analytic condition predicted pre-/post-visit reductions in self-reported anxiety and stress in the sample of older women. These observations suggest that the level of engagement of attentional processes during artwork analysis may play a major role in the effect of a museum's visit on self-reported symptoms of anxiety.
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- Emma Gabrielle Dupuy
- Centre EPIC et centre de Recherche, Montreal Heart Insitute, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Département de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre EPIC et centre de Recherche, Montreal Heart Insitute, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre EPIC et centre de Recherche, Montreal Heart Insitute, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre EPIC et centre de Recherche, Montreal Heart Insitute, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- CRIR—IURDPM, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- CRIR—IURDPM, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- École de Réadaptation, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- CRIR—IURDPM, CIUSSS du Centre-Sud-de-l’Île-de-Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Centre EPIC et centre de Recherche, Montreal Heart Insitute, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Département de Médecine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Centre de Recherche, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Bara I, Binney RJ, Ward R, Ramsey R. A generalised semantic cognition account of aesthetic experience. Neuropsychologia 2022; 173:108288. [PMID: 35690113 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2022.108288] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2021] [Revised: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 06/04/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Given that aesthetic experiences typically involve extracting meaning from environment, we believe that semantic cognition research has much to offer the field of neuroaesthetics. In the current paper, we propose a generalised framework that is inspired by the semantic cognition literature and that treats aesthetic experience as just one example of how meaning accumulates. According to our framework, aesthetic experiences are underpinned by the same cognitive and brain systems that are involved in deriving meaning from the environment in general, such as modality-specific conceptual representations and controlled processes for retrieving the appropriate type of information. Our generalised semantic cognition view of aesthetic experience has substantial implications for theory development: it leads to novel, falsifiable predictions and it reconfigures foundational assumptions regarding the structure of the cognitive and brain systems that may be involved in aesthetic experiences.
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- Ionela Bara
- Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Human and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, LL57 2AS, United Kingdom.
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- Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Human and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, LL57 2AS, United Kingdom
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- Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Human and Behavioural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, LL57 2AS, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
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Jaeger SR, Lee PY, Jin D, Chheang SL, Rojas-Rivas E, Ares G. The item-by-use (IBU) method for measuring perceived situational appropriateness: A methodological characterisation using CATA questions. Food Qual Prefer 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodqual.2019.103724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. The brain processes which play a role in the mental construction of fiction worlds and the related engagement with fictional characters, remain largely unknown. The authors discuss the neurocognitive poetics model ( Jacobs, 2015a ) of literary reading specifying the likely neuronal correlates of several key processes in literary reading, namely inference and situation model building, immersion, mental simulation and imagery, figurative language and style, and the issue of distinguishing fact from fiction. An overview of recent work on these key processes is followed by a discussion of methodological challenges in studying the brain bases of fiction processing.
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Pelowski M, Markey PS, Forster M, Gerger G, Leder H. Move me, astonish me… delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of top-down and bottom-up processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective, evaluative, and neurophysiological correlates. Phys Life Rev 2017; 21:80-125. [PMID: 28347673 DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2017.02.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2016] [Revised: 02/09/2017] [Accepted: 02/17/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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This paper has a rather audacious purpose: to present a comprehensive theory explaining, and further providing hypotheses for the empirical study of, the multiple ways by which people respond to art. Despite common agreement that interaction with art can be based on a compelling, and occasionally profound, psychological experience, the nature of these interactions is still under debate. We propose a model, The Vienna Integrated Model of Art Perception (VIMAP), with the goal of resolving the multifarious processes that can occur when we perceive and interact with visual art. Specifically, we focus on the need to integrate bottom-up, artwork-derived processes, which have formed the bulk of previous theoretical and empirical assessments, with top-down mechanisms which can describe how individuals adapt or change within their processing experience, and thus how individuals may come to particularly moving, disturbing, transformative, as well as mundane, results. This is achieved by combining several recent lines of theoretical research into a new integrated approach built around three processing checks, which we argue can be used to systematically delineate the possible outcomes in art experience. We also connect our model's processing stages to specific hypotheses for emotional, evaluative, and physiological factors, and address main topics in psychological aesthetics including provocative reactions-chills, awe, thrills, sublime-and difference between "aesthetic" and "everyday" emotional response. Finally, we take the needed step of connecting stages to functional regions in the brain, as well as broader core networks that may coincide with the proposed cognitive checks, and which taken together can serve as a basis for future empirical and theoretical art research.
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- Matthew Pelowski
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Vienna, Austria.
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Psychology, Liebiggasse 5, A-1010 Vienna, Austria
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