2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Emotional contextual modulation in aesthetic judgment and its neural correlates
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26870658
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Kansei informatics
Cognitive science
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 神経美学 / 文脈効果 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We aim to address the basic question of how aesthetic judgments are influenced by social contexts, and specifically by emotional modulations. The latter is a phenomenon studied in group psychology, wherein an observer changes his or her evaluation in light of emotion depicted in a scene or in others; it is known to occur in a range of decision-making processes, including aesthetic judgments. Using neuroimaging techniques, we want to identify the brain mechanisms through which the emotional modulation effect influences aesthetic evaluation, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Firstly, we studied how the brain responded to aesthetic and emotional judgment to find basic brain systems for each of judgments. Secondly, we studied the brain regions whose activity correlated to contextual modulation by emotion in aesthetic judgment.
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| Free Research Field |
認知神経科学
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