Neuroaesthetic research suggests that aesthetic appreciation results from the interaction between the object perceptual features and the perceiver's sensory processing dynamics. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between aesthetic appreciation and attentional modulation at a behavioural and psychophysiological level. In a first experiment, fifty-eight healthy participants performed a visual search task with abstract stimuli containing more or less natural spatial frequencies and subsequently were asked to give an aesthetic evaluation of the images. The results evidenced that response times were faster for more appreciated stimuli. In a second experiment, we recorded visual evoked potentials (VEPs) during exposure to the same stimuli. The results showed, only for more appreciated images, an enhancement in C1 and N1, P3 and N4 VEP components. Moreover, we found increased attention-related occipital alpha desynchronization for more appreciated images. We interpret these data as indicative of the existence of a correlation between aesthetic appreciation and perceptual processing enhancement, both at a behavioural and at a neurophysiological level.

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内在美：审美欣赏与感知促进和注意力放大相关。

神经美学研究表明，审美欣赏是由对象的感知特征与感知者的感官加工动力学之间的相互作用产生的。在本研究中，我们研究了行为和心理生理层面上审美欣赏与注意调节之间的关系。在第一个实验中，五十八名健康的参与者使用包含或多或少的自然空间频率的抽象刺激执行了视觉搜索任务，随后被要求对图像进行美学评估。结果证明，对于更多欣赏的刺激，响应时间更快。在第二个实验中，我们记录了暴露于相同刺激下的视觉诱发电位（VEP）。结果表明，仅对于更欣赏的图像，C1和N1有所增强，P3和N4 VEP组件。此外，我们发现与注意力相关的枕骨α失步增加，从而获得更多欣赏的图像。我们将这些数据解释为表示在行为和神经生理学水平上审美欣赏与感知加工增强之间存在相关性的指示。