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: Received: 24 July 2024 / Approved: 25 July 2024 / Online: 25 July 2024 (07:24:52 CEST)
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Lin, F.; Song, W.; Li, Y.; Xu, W. Investigating the Relationship Between Balanced Composition and Aesthetic Judgment through Computational Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetic Approaches. Preprints2024, 2024072018. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2018.v1
Lin, F.; Song, W.; Li, Y.; Xu, W. Investigating the Relationship Between Balanced Composition and Aesthetic Judgment through Computational Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetic Approaches. Preprints 2024, 2024072018. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2018.v1
Lin, F.; Song, W.; Li, Y.; Xu, W. Investigating the Relationship Between Balanced Composition and Aesthetic Judgment through Computational Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetic Approaches. Preprints2024, 2024072018. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2018.v1
APA Style
Lin, F., Song, W., Li, Y., & Xu, W. (2024). Investigating the Relationship Between Balanced Composition and Aesthetic Judgment through Computational Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetic Approaches. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2018.v1
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Lin, F., Yan Li and Wanni Xu. 2024 "Investigating the Relationship Between Balanced Composition and Aesthetic Judgment through Computational Aesthetics and Neuroaesthetic Approaches" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202407.2018.v1
Abstract
Background: Symmetry is a special kind of balance. This study aims to systematically explore and apply the role of balanced composition in aesthetic judgments by focusing on balanced composition features and employing research methods from computational aesthetics and Neuroaesthetics. Methods: First, experimental materials were classified by quantifying balanced composition using several indices, including symmetry, center of gravity, and negative space. An EEG experiment was conducted with 18 participants, who were asked to respond dichotomously to the same stimuli under different judgment tasks (balance and aesthetics), with both behavioral and EEG data being recorded and analyzed. Subsequently, participants' data were combined with balanced composition indices to construct and analyze various SVM classification models. Results: Participants largely used balanced composition as a criterion for aesthetic evaluation. ERP data indicated that from 300-500ms post-stimulus, brain activation was more significant in the aesthetic task, with unbeautiful and imbalanced stimuli eliciting larger frontal negative waves and occipital positive waves. From 600-1000ms, beautiful stimuli caused smaller negative waves in the PZ channel. The results of the SVM models indicated that the model incorporating aesthetic subject data (ACC=0.9989) outperforms the model using only balanced composition parameters of the aesthetic object (ACC=0.7074). Conclusions: Balanced composition is a crucial indicator in aesthetics, with similar early processing stages in both balance and aesthetic judgments. Multimodal data models validated the advantage of including human factors in aesthetic evaluation systems. This interdisciplinary approach not only enhances our understanding of the cognitive and emotional processes involved in aesthetic judgments but also enables the construction of more reasonable machine learning models to simulate and predict human aesthetic preferences.
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