フィンランドのトゥルク大学とアールト大学の新しい研究により、アートが人々の身体や感情に強力な影響を与えることが明らかになりました。 A new study from the University of Turku and Aalto University in Finland reveals that art has a powerful effect on people’s bodies and emotions.
2023-03-27 フィンランド・アールト大学
研究対象者は、さまざまな種類の芸術作品を見て、どのような感情が体内で起こったかを説明し、研究者は被験者の視線移動を記録した。また、被験者はそれぞれの芸術作品がどのような感情を引き起こすかを評価した。
結果、芸術作品は多様な感情を引き起こすことが分かり、人間の感情が最も興味深いテーマであり、被験者の体験した感情は主にポジティブであったことが示された。また、被験者が体験する感情の強さは、芸術作品に対する身体的な反応の強さによって影響を受けることもわかった。
研究は、オンライン調査と実験室での視線移動の記録によって行われ、異なる国々から1,186人が参加した。
<関連情報>
- https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/art-evokes-feelings-in-the-body
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02699931.2023.2183180
- https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1321664111
身体感覚と芸術の美的体験 Bodily feelings and aesthetic experience of art
Lauri Nummenmaaa & Riitta Hari
Cognition and Emotion Published:13 Mar 2023
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2023.2183180
ABSTRACT
Humans all around the world are drawn to creating and consuming art due to its capability to evoke emotions, but the mechanisms underlying art-evoked feelings remain poorly characterised. Here we show how embodiement contributes to emotions evoked by a large database of visual art pieces (n = 336). In four experiments, we mapped the subjective feeling space of art-evoked emotions (n = 244), quantified “bodily fingerprints” of these emotions (n = 615), and recorded the subjects’ interest annotations (n = 306) and eye movements (n = 21) while viewing the art. We show that art evokes a wide spectrum of feelings, and that the bodily fingerprints triggered by art are central to these feelings, especially in artworks where human figures are salient. Altogether these results support the model that bodily sensations are central to the aesthetic experience.
感情の身体地図 Bodily maps of emotions
Lauri Nummenmaa , Enrico Glerean, Riitta Hari and Jari K. Hietanen
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Published:December 30, 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1321664111
Significance
Emotions coordinate our behavior and physiological states during survival-salient events and pleasurable interactions. Even though we are often consciously aware of our current emotional state, such as anger or happiness, the mechanisms giving rise to these subjective sensations have remained unresolved. Here we used a topographical self-report tool to reveal that different emotional states are associated with topographically distinct and culturally universal bodily sensations; these sensations could underlie our conscious emotional experiences. Monitoring the topography of emotion-triggered bodily sensations brings forth a unique tool for emotion research and could even provide a biomarker for emotional disorders.
Abstract
Emotions are often felt in the body, and somatosensory feedback has been proposed to trigger conscious emotional experiences. Here we reveal maps of bodily sensations associated with different emotions using a unique topographical self-report method. In five experiments, participants (n = 701) were shown two silhouettes of bodies alongside emotional words, stories, movies, or facial expressions. They were asked to color the bodily regions whose activity they felt increasing or decreasing while viewing each stimulus. Different emotions were consistently associated with statistically separable bodily sensation maps across experiments. These maps were concordant across West European and East Asian samples. Statistical classifiers distinguished emotion-specific activation maps accurately, confirming independence of topographies across emotions. We propose that emotions are represented in the somatosensory system as culturally universal categorical somatotopic maps. Perception of these emotion-triggered bodily changes may play a key role in generating consciously felt emotions.
