Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue SUPPL2, 2013, Pages 10446-10453

  Vartanian, Oshin ^a   Navarrete, Gorka ^b,c   Chatterjee, Anjan ^d   Fich, Lars Brorson ^e   Leder, Helmut ^f   Modrono, Cristiàn ^b   Nadal, Marcos ^f   Rostrup, Nicolai ^g   Skov, Martin ^h,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^g Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Curvature; Design; Habitat theory; Neuroaesthetics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CURVATURE; DESIGN; HABITAT THEORY; NEUROAESTHETICS;

ADULT; BEAUTY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; GYRUS CINGULI; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84879302662     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301227110     Document Type: Article

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