Cognitive Fluency: High-Level Processing Dynamics in Art Appreciation

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 214-222

  Belke, Benno ^a   Leder, Helmut ^a   Strobach, Tilo ^b   Carbon, Claus Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual priming; Dynamic appreciation; Empirical aesthetics; Processing fluency; Visual art perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650079219     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019648     Document Type: Article

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