Aesthetic experience enhances first-person spatial representation.

ABSTRACT: Episodic autobiographical memories are characterized by a spatial context and an affective component. But how do affective and spatial aspects interact? Does affect modulate the way we encode the spatial context of events? We investigated how one element of affect, namely aesthetic liking, modulates memory for location, in three online experiments (n = 124, 79, and 80). Participants visited a professionally curated virtual art exhibition. They then relocated previously viewed artworks on the museum map and reported how much they liked them. Across all experiments, liking an artwork was associated with increased ability to recall the wall on which it was hung. The effect was not explained by viewing time and appeared to modulate recognition speed. The liking-wall memory effect remain

SUBMITTER: Babo-Rebelo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9618070 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature