Putting reward in art: A tentative prediction error account of visual art

i-Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1035-1062

  Van de Cruys, Sander ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a  

^a Laboratory of Experimental Psychology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aesthetic emotion; Art perception; Gestalt; Perceptual organization; Predictive coding; Psychoaesthetics; Reward

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865075784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0466aap     Document Type: Article

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