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Psychophysical Tracking Method to Measure Taste Preferences in Children and Adults

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Published on: July 16, 2016

Tracking two pleasures.

Aenne A Brielmann¹, Denis G Pelli^2,3

¹Psychology Department, New York University, New York, NY, USA. aenne.brielmann@nyu.edu.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

|January 4, 2020

Summary

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People can accurately report the pleasure derived from individual images and the combined pleasure of two images presented simultaneously. This finding suggests our capacity to process and recall multiple aesthetic experiences effectively.

Keywords:

Aesthetics Ensemble perception Glimpse Pleasure

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Psychology
Cognitive Science
Neuroscience

Background:

Aesthetic pleasure research typically isolates stimuli, unlike real-world experiences.
Investigating the capacity to perceive and report pleasure from multiple simultaneous stimuli is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine if individuals can reliably report the pleasure of one of two images or the combined pleasure of both.
To examine the influence of attentional cues (precuing vs. postcuing) on reporting pleasure.

Main Methods:

Participants viewed pairs of images from the Open Affective Standardized Image Set (OASIS) for 200 ms.
Attentional cues indicated whether to rate a single image or the average pleasure of both.
Precuing and postcuing conditions manipulated attentional focus.

Main Results:

Replication confirmed that participants have unbiased access to individual and averaged pleasure ratings.
The variance in reporting pleasure for one image or two was comparable.
Undiminished variance suggests shared reporting processes or correlated underlying pleasures.

Conclusions:

Individuals can faithfully track and report on at least two distinct visual pleasures.
The reporting mechanism for pleasure appears robust even when processing multiple stimuli.