Beauty and Paintings: Aesthetic Experience in Patients with Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia When Viewing Abstract and Concrete Paintings

We assessed the aesthetic experience of patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) to understand their ability to experience feelings of the sublime and to be moved when viewing paintings. We exposed patients with bvFTD and control participants to concrete and abstract painting...

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Published in:Brain sciences 2024-05, Vol.14 (5), p.500
Main Authors: Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Claire, Thomas-Anterion, Catherine, Deruet, Anne-Laure, Lamy, Estelle, El Haj, Mohamad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
aesthetic
Aesthetics
arts
Beauty
behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia
Caregivers
Cognitive science
Dementia
Dementia disorders
Emotions
Empathy
Frontotemporal dementia
Medical research
Medicine, Experimental
Museums
neuroaesthetics
Philosophers
Psychology
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Summary:We assessed the aesthetic experience of patients with behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) to understand their ability to experience feelings of the sublime and to be moved when viewing paintings. We exposed patients with bvFTD and control participants to concrete and abstract paintings and asked them how moved they were by these paintings and whether the latter were beautiful or ugly. Patients with bvFTD declared being less moved than control participants by both abstract and concrete paintings. No significant differences were observed between abstract and concrete paintings in both patients with bvFTD and control participants. Patients with bvFTD provided fewer "beautiful" and more "ugly" responses than controls for both abstract and concrete paintings. No significant differences in terms of "beautiful" and "ugly" responses were observed between abstract and concrete paintings in both patients with bvFTD and control participants. These findings suggest disturbances in the basic affective experience of patients with bvFTD when they are exposed to paintings, as well as a bias in their ability to judge the aesthetic quality of paintings.
ISSN:2076-3425
2076-3425
DOI:10.3390/brainsci14050500