Do you like Arcimboldo's? Esthetic appreciation modulates brain activity in solving perceptual ambiguity

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 278, Issue , 2015, Pages 147-154

  Boccia, M ^a,b   Nemmi, F ^c   Tizzani, E ^a   Guariglia, C ^a,b   Ferlazzo, F ^a   Galati, G ^a,b   Giannini, A M ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Esthetic judgment; FMRI; Neuroaesthetic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR OCCIPITAL LOBE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; INSULA; LINGUAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE OCCIPITAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PAINTING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; RIGHT SUPERIOR PARIETAL LOBE; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; TASK PERFORMANCE; ART; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; IMAGE PROCESSING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ART; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908239968     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.09.041     Document Type: Article

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