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SUBMITTER: Jakesch M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5432603 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jakesch Martina M Goller Juergen J Leder Helmut H
Frontiers in psychology 20170516
Whereas ambiguity in everyday life is often negatively evaluated, it is considered key in art appreciation. In a facial EMG study, we tested whether the positive role of visual ambiguity in paintings is reflected in a continuous affective evaluation on a subtle level. We presented ambiguous (disfluent) and non-ambiguous (fluent) versions of Magritte paintings and found that <i>M. Zygomaticus major</i> activation was higher and <i>M. corrugator supercilii</i> activation was lower for ambiguous th ...[more]