Sense of verisimilitude as an important aspect of affective processing and its psycho-neural bases

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26330306
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Kansei informatics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: Gyoba Jiro 東北大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (50142899)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 迫真性 / 臨場感 / 逆理的効果 / 日本美 / 多感覚相互作用

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Important characteristics of Japanese beauty can be considered as the reduction of stimulus information by extracting essence of affective properties and simple presentation of them. In this research, we defined such affective experience of trueness induced by the reduction approach as the 'sense of verisimilitude.’The inverse effectiveness is known as the principle that the degree of inter-modal interaction increases with weaker stimulation to each modality. We have found by various experiments that perceptual completion, awareness of emergent properties, and beauty of incompleteness can be augmented under the weaker and simpler stimulation than real world levels. We proposed a conceptual model based on psychophysical and brain scientific findings for explaining a possible mechanism producing the sense of verisimilitude underlying the characteristics of Japanese beauty.

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