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Arslanbek A, Malhotra B, Stickley KS, Herres J, Spooner H, Lamb DG, Levy CE, Williamson JB, Kaimal G. Exploring the evocative qualities of masks' visual imagery and their associations with adversity and trauma. Front Psychol 2024; 15:1337927. [PMID: 38919795 PMCID: PMC11196919 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1337927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 04/25/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024] Open
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Introduction Studies suggest a relationship between the emotional evocativeness of visual imagery and viewer responses, however, there is limited understanding of these associations, especially as they relate to viewers' personal experiences of adversities. Methods In this exploratory study, we examined the relationship between the visual content of mask images and viewers' responses. In an online survey 699 participants (of n = 1,010 total initial participants) rated 98 masks based on valence, arousal, and personal relevance and completed the Life Events Checklist. The masks included those created by service members (SMs) with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depicting physical, psychological, and moral injuries and matched neutral masks created by creative arts therapists and arts in health scholars. Findings The findings indicated that responses to mask image content (traumatic versus neutral) were associated with viewers' personal history of adversity and trauma. Specifically, images representing injury/trauma provoked stronger reactions on valence and arousal than neutral images. Moreover, participants with personal histories of trauma had heightened emotional responses to distressing imagery. Discussion These findings have implications for art therapists as well as for clinical and general populations in that these results highlight the potential impact of distressing imagery particularly for individuals with personal histories of experiencing or witnessing traumatic events.
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- Asli Arslanbek
- Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Department of Arts and Letters. The University of Tampa, Tampa, FL, United States
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- Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- The College of New Jersey, Hamilton, NJ, United States
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, United States
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- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States
- Malcom Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gainesville, FL, United States
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- Department of Creative Arts Therapies, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Ardizzi M, Ferroni F, Manini A, Giudici C, Maccaferri E, Uccelli S, Umiltà MA. The influence of sensorimotor experience on beauty evaluation of preschool children. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1138420. [PMID: 37492560 PMCID: PMC10363598 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1138420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023] Open
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Nowadays there is a broad consensus on the role of multimodality in the construction of an embodied aesthetic experience in adults, whereas little is known about the relationship between sensorimotor and aesthetic experience during development. To fill this gap, the present study investigated whether sensorimotor experience with sculpting natural materials (i.e., clay or sand) influences beauty judgments offered to abstract artifacts made by the same materials. Five years old children (n.47) were asked to rate tactile (How smooth is it?), visual (How dark is it?) and beauty (How much do you like it?) proprieties of two artifacts using a visual-analog measurement-tool ad hoc developed to fit children's cognitive skills. Participants rated the artifacts before and after a free-hands manipulation with only one of the two sculpting materials, either sand or clay. Results showed that the greater the sensorimotor interaction experienced with the artifacts, the higher the increment of beauty rating offered to the artifacts made by the same material previously manipulated. No modulations were found for tactile and visual ratings. These results demonstrate that, even in pre-school children, aesthetic experience is specifically linked to its sensorimotor component, supporting, from a developmental perspective, the definition of aesthetic experience as intrinsically rooted on beholders' bodily experience.
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- Martina Ardizzi
- Unit of Neuroscience, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Unit of Neuroscience, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical, Metabolic and Neural Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Food and Drugs, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
- The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
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Jung C, Kim J, Park K. Cognitive and affective interaction with somatosensory afference in acupuncture-a specific brain response to compound stimulus. Front Hum Neurosci 2023; 17:1105703. [PMID: 37415858 PMCID: PMC10321409 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2023.1105703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/08/2023] Open
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Introduction Acupuncture is a clinical intervention consisting of multiple stimulus components, including somatosensory stimulation and manipulation of therapeutic context. Existing findings in neuroscience consolidated cognitive modulation to somatosensory afferent process, which could differ from placebo mechanism in brain. Here, we aimed to identify intrinsic process of brain interactions induced by compound stimulus of acupuncture treatment. Methods To separately and comprehensively investigate somatosensory afferent and cognitive/affective processes in brain, we implemented a novel experimental protocol of contextual manipulation with somatosensory stimulation (real acupuncture: REAL) and only contextual manipulation (phantom acupuncture: PHNT) for fMRI scan, and conducted independent component (IC)-wise assessment with the concatenated fMRI data. Results By our double (experimentally and analytically) dissociation, two ICs (CA1: executive control, CA2: goal-directed sensory process) for cognitive/affective modulation (associated with both REAL and PHNT) and other two ICs (SA1: interoceptive attention and motor-reaction, SA2: somatosensory representation) for somatosensory afference (associated with only REAL) were identified. Moreover, coupling between SA1 and SA2 was associated with a decreased heart rate during stimulation, whereas CA1 was associated with a delayed heart rate decrease post-stimulation. Furthermore, partial correlation network for these components demonstrated a bi-directional interaction between CA1 and SA1/SA2, suggesting the cognitive modulation to somatosensory process. The expectation for the treatment negatively affected CA1 but positively affected SA1 in REAL, whereas the expectation positively affected CA1 in PHNT. Discussion These specific cognitive-somatosensory interaction in REAL were differed from vicarious sensation mechanism in PHNT; and might be associated with a characteristic of acupuncture, which induces voluntary attention for interoception. Our findings on brain interactions in acupuncture treatment elucidated the underlying brain mechanisms for compound stimulus of somatosensory afferent and therapeutic contextual manipulation, which might be a specific response to acupuncture.
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- Changjin Jung
- Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea
- Division of KM Science Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Division of KM Science Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Republic of Korea
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Nummenmaa L, Hari R. Bodily feelings and aesthetic experience of art. Cogn Emot 2023:1-14. [PMID: 36912601 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2183180] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2023]
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Humans all around the world are drawn to creating and consuming art due to its capability to evoke emotions, but the mechanisms underlying art-evoked feelings remain poorly characterised. Here we show how embodiement contributes to emotions evoked by a large database of visual art pieces (n = 336). In four experiments, we mapped the subjective feeling space of art-evoked emotions (n = 244), quantified "bodily fingerprints" of these emotions (n = 615), and recorded the subjects' interest annotations (n = 306) and eye movements (n = 21) while viewing the art. We show that art evokes a wide spectrum of feelings, and that the bodily fingerprints triggered by art are central to these feelings, especially in artworks where human figures are salient. Altogether these results support the model that bodily sensations are central to the aesthetic experience.
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- Lauri Nummenmaa
- Turku PET Centre, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.,Turku University Hospital, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Department of Art and Media, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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Iosa M, Bini F, Marinozzi F, Antonucci G, Pascucci S, Baghini G, Guarino V, Paolucci S, Morone G, Tieri G. Inside the Michelangelo effect: The role of art and aesthetic attractiveness on perceived fatigue and hand kinematics in virtual painting. Psych J 2022; 11:748-754. [PMID: 36168965 PMCID: PMC9827837 DOI: 10.1002/pchj.606] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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It has recently been discovered that during a virtual reality task of painting, if the subjects have the illusion of recreating an artistic masterpiece, they improve their performances and perceive less fatigue compared to simply coloring a virtual canvas. This phenomenon has been called the Michelangelo effect. However, it was unclear if this effect was related to the aesthetic experience of beauty or if it was specific to artistic stimuli. To clarify this point, 26 healthy subjects performed the virtual task of erasing a blank sheet on the canvas, revealing an image that could be a painting or a photo, classified as beautiful or not. Beautiful paintings were famous artistic portraits, non-beautiful paintings were rough reproductions of them. Photos of popular people were matched with paintings according to their similarity for somatic traits, posture, and clothes. Beautiful and non-beautiful photos were classified according to whether the pictured person was famous or not for their beauty. For each stimulus the objective beauty, subjective beauty, and effort to complete the task perceived by the subject were self-assessed on a numerical rating scale, recorded and analyzed. Furthermore, the hand kinematic trajectory was instrumentally recorded and its spatiotemporal parameters were computed. Less fatigue was perceived for the paintings than for the photos (p = .020), but not for beautiful versus non-beautiful stimuli (p = .325). Only in the artistic stimuli, subjective beauty was found to be negatively correlated with perceived fatigue (p = .030) and performed errors (p = .005). The kinematic parameters were found to be affected by the interactions between the gender of the participant and that of the person in the photo. These results supported the idea that the Michelangelo effect was stronger when subjects interacted with artefacts, modulated by the perceived beauty of the artistic stimulus.
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- Marco Iosa
- Department of PsychologySapienza University of RomeRomeItaly,IRCCS Fondazione Santa LuciaRomeItaly
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- IRCCS Fondazione Santa LuciaRomeItaly,Department of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringSapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- IRCCS Fondazione Santa LuciaRomeItaly,Department of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringSapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of PsychologySapienza University of RomeRomeItaly,IRCCS Fondazione Santa LuciaRomeItaly
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringSapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringSapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of PsychologySapienza University of RomeRomeItaly
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- Department of Life, Health and Environmental SciencesUniversity of L'AquilaL'AquilaItaly
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- IRCCS Fondazione Santa LuciaRomeItaly,Virtual Reality LabUnitelma Sapienza of RomeRomeItaly
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