Pragmatic information of aesthetic appraisal
This work addresses aesthetic appraisal for researchers in cognitive science and musicology, but it is incremental as it builds on existing computational and neurodynamical accounts.
The authors tackled the problem of modeling aesthetic appraisal by proposing a phenomenological model based on pragmatic information and dynamic update semantics, which qualitatively correlated with aesthetic pleasure ratings in an experimental study on cadential effects in Western tonal music.
A phenomenological model for aesthetic appraisal is proposed in terms of pragmatic information for a dynamic update semantics over belief states on an aesthetic appreciator. The model qualitatively correlates with aesthetic pleasure ratings in an experimental study on cadential effects in Western tonal music. Finally, related computational and neurodynamical accounts are discussed.