Aesthetic appreciation: event-related field and time-frequency analyses

Munar, E.; Nadal, M.; Castellanos, N; Flexas, A; Maestú, F.; Mirasso, C. and Cela-Conde, J.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5, 1-11 (2012)

Improvements in neuroimaging methods have afforded significant advances in our
knowledge of the cognitive and neural foundations of aesthetic appreciation. We used
magnetoencephalography (MEG) to register brain activity while participants decided about
the beauty of visual stimuli. The data were analyzed with event-related field (ERF) and
Time-Frequency (TF) procedures. ERFs revealed no significant differences between brain
activity related with stimuli rated as “beautiful” and “not beautiful.” TF analysis showed
clear differences between both conditions 400ms after stimulus onset. Oscillatory power
was greater for stimuli rated as “beautiful” than those regarded as “not beautiful” in the
four frequency bands (theta, alpha, beta, and gamma). These results are interpreted in the
frame of synchronization studies.


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