Article Dans Une Revue Brain Sciences Année : 2024

Beauty and Paintings

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We assessed the aesthetic experience of patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) to understand their ability to experience feelings of the sublime and to be moved when viewing paintings. We exposed patients with bvFTD and control participants to concrete and abstract paintings and asked them how moved they were by these paintings and whether the latter were beautiful or ugly. Patients with bvFTD declared being less moved than control participants by both abstract and concrete paintings. No significant differences were observed between abstract and concrete paintings in both patients with bvFTD and control participants. Patients with bvFTD provided fewer “beautiful” and more “ugly” responses than controls for both abstract and concrete paintings. No significant differences in terms of “beautiful” and “ugly” responses were observed between abstract and concrete paintings in both patients with bvFTD and control participants. These findings suggest disturbances in the basic affective experience of patients with bvFTD when they are exposed to paintings, as well as a bias in their ability to judge the aesthetic quality of paintings.

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hal-04793570 , version 1 (20-11-2024)

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Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Catherine Thomas-Anterion, Anne-Laure Deruet, Estelle Lamy, Mohamad El Haj. Beauty and Paintings. Brain Sciences, 2024, 14 (5), pp.500. ⟨10.3390/brainsci14050500⟩. ⟨hal-04793570⟩
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