Exploring responses to art in adolescence: a behavioral and eye-tracking study.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a peculiar age mainly characterized by physical and psychological changes that may affect the perception of one's own and others' body. This perceptual peculiarity may influence the way in which bottom-up and top-down processes interact and, consequently, the perception and evaluation of art. This study is aimed at investigating, by means of the eye-tracking technique, the visual explorative behavior of adolescents while looking at paintings. Sixteen color paintings, categorized as dynamic and static, were presented to twenty adolescents; half of the images represented natural environments and half human individuals; all stimuli were displayed under aesthetic and movement judgment tasks. Participants' ratings revealed that, generally, nature images are explicitly evaluated a

SUBMITTER: Savazzi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4105571 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature