Cognitive Processes in the Perception of Art (eBook)

Front Cover 1
Cognitve Processes in Perception of Art 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 12
Preface 6
Contributors 10
SECTION I: INTRODUCTION 14
Chapter 1. The perception of art: the cognitive approach and its 16
SECTION II: SYMBOLS AND MEANINGS IN THE ARTS 38
Chapter 2. The psychological investigation of art: Theoretical and methodological implications 40
Chapter 3. Psychology and the traditions of symbolization 58
Chapter 4. Texts, signs, artefacts 78
Chapter 5. Elusive effects of artists' 'messages' 84
SECTION III: THE ARTS AND DEVELOPMENT 108
Chapter 6. A theoretical framework for thinking about depiction 110
Chapter 7. Getting the drawing to look right as well as to be right 124
Chapter 8. Perceiving what paintings express 140
Chapter 9. Development of musical schemata in children's spontaneous singing 158
SECTION IV: PERCEPTION OF THE VISUAL ARTS 178
Chapter 10. Christina's World: imaginary perspectives and the encoding of spatial alignment relations 180
Chapter 11. The aesthetic experience and mundane reality 202
Chapter 12. Event perception, perceptual organization and emotion 224
SECTION V: PERCEPTION OF MUSIC 236
Chapter 13. Cognition of complex events: visual scenes and music 238
Chapter 14. Musical space 266
Chapter 15. The auditory image: A metaphor for musical and psychological research on auditory organization 302
Chapter 16. Creativity and tradition in oral folklore, or the balance of innovation and repetition in the oral poet's art 338
Chapter 17. Cognitive processes in improvisation 358
SECTION VI: ISSUES IN EXPERIMENTAL AESTHETICS 378
Chapter 18. A general notion of beauty used to quantify the aesthetic attractivity of geometric forms 380
Chapter 19. Effects of mere exposure, cognitive set, and task expectations on aesthetic appreciation 402
Chapter 20. Reversal theory, cognitive synergy and the arts 424
Chapter 21. Synesthesia and the arts 440