Beauty and the busy mind: Occupied working memory resources impair aesthetic experiences in everyday life.

Aesthetic experiences have been distinguished from other experiences based on an aesthetic mode of processing that often entails concentrating working memory resources on the aesthetic stimulus. Since working memory is a limited-capacity system, there should be a trade-off between available resource...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Rosalie Weigand, Thomas Jacobsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248529