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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Art Perception

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  • Humans often prefer symmetrical artwork, yet asymmetrical art influences aesthetic preferences.
  • Aesthetic preference for asymmetrical images frequently favors left-to-right flow and right-sided mass.
  • Cerebral lateralization is proposed for directionality bias, but cultural scanning habits' role is debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate aesthetic preferences for mobile objects versus landscapes, noting prior contrasting findings.
  • Examine the impact of dynamic movement on directionality preference, challenging static image equivalence.
  • Test if scanning habits moderate cerebral lateralization's influence on aesthetic biases.

Main Methods:

  • Participants viewed mirror-imaged pairs of static pictures and dynamic videos.
  • Aesthetic preferences were recorded for stimuli with varying directionality and mass.
  • Comparison between left-to-right and right-to-left reading groups.

Main Results:

  • Left-to-right readers showed a preference for left-to-right directionality, irrespective of mass.
  • Right-to-left readers did not exhibit a significant preference bias.
  • Dynamic videos accentuated directionality bias in both groups, more so in left-to-right readers.

Conclusions:

  • Scanning habits significantly moderate the leftward bias attributed to hemispheric specialization.
  • Dynamic visual stimuli enhance visual processing fluency and strengthen directionality preferences.
  • Cultural factors, like reading direction, play a crucial role in shaping aesthetic perception.