The psychology of art is the scientific study of cognitive and emotional processes precipitated by the sensory perception of aesthetic artefacts, such as viewing a painting or touching a sculpture. It is an emerging multidisciplinary field of inquiry, closely related to the psychology of aesthetics, including neuroaesthetics. [1][2]

2019年4月2日 · Her latest book, “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration,” is based on years of research at both Harvard and BC, and looks at art through psychological and philosophical lenses. The Gazette spoke with her recently about her findings.

2020年9月15日 · The psychology of art is a field of psychology that studies creativity and artistic appreciation from a psychological standpoint. The goals of the psychology of art are similar to those pursued by other related disciplines of psychology.

2023年3月7日 · Psychology of art theories describe art creation and art appreciation as mirror images of each other. Neuroscience research shows great similarity in brain regions active during creative...

The psychology of art and aesthetics is the study of the perception and experience of the visual arts, music, film, performances, literature, design, and the environment. Art is a human phenomenon, and therefore aesthetics is fundamentally a psychological process.

Art is a uniquely human activity associated fundamentally with symbolic and abstract cognition. Its practice in human societies throughout the world, coupled with seeming non-functionality, has led to three major brain theories of art. (1) The localized brain regions and pathways theory links art to multiple neural regions.

Morphology, art criti-cism, and art history emphasize works of art, while the psychology of art emphasizes the behavior and experience of the people who make and use them. But all these branches overlap. To understand the work of art one must pay some attention to its human context, and vice versa. In the psy-chology of art we try to avoid ...