Investigating the role of working memory resources across aesthetic and non-aesthetic judgements.

ABSTRACT: Aesthetic judgements dominate much of daily life by guiding how we evaluate objects, people, and experiences in our environment. One key question that remains unanswered is the extent to which more specialised or largely general cognitive resources support aesthetic judgements. To investigate this question in the context of working memory, we examined the extent to which a working memory load produces similar or different response time interference on aesthetic compared with non-aesthetic judgements. Across three pre-registered experiments that used Bayesian multi-level modelling approaches (N > 100 per experiment), we found clear evidence that a working memory load produces similar response time interference on aesthetic judgements relative to non-aesthetic (motion) judgements. We

SUBMITTER: Bara I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10363947 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature