In the early 1970s, Daniel Berlyne published the landmark Aesthetics and Psychobiology , exploring the connection between physiological arousal and the arts. (psychologytoday.com)
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Probably the most known theory for explaining environmental preference in the architectural, interior and urban design disciplines is 'prospect-refuge theory', although its application in design actually combines aspects of Berlyne's ( 1951 ) 'arousal theory' and Kaplan and Kaplan's ( 1989 ) 'information model' with Appleton ( 1975 ) prospect-refuge theory. (springeropen.com)
Based on the pioneering ideas of Wilhelm Wundt from the 1870's and known as the Wundt curve, D. E. Berlyne researched the premise that the pleasurable value of stimuli is the highest at intermediate levels of arousal or complexity. (mentalhelp.net)
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This behavioral generalization states that moderate levels of motivation or arousal produce optimal performance. (mentalhelp.net)
The effect seems to be complex and can cause different types of emotional arousal, either more immediate emotional experiences leading to mood/feeling changes, or affective aspects of associative, more cognitively based experiences (Thaut,1990). (livnay.ws)
The concordance between our model's predictions and our experimental results suggests that Bayesian information gain can be decomposed into uncertainty and prediction errors and is a valid measure of emotional arousal. (figshare.com)
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4. Positive emotional experience is promoted (Berlyne, 1971). (livnay.ws)
This functional model predicted an interaction effect of prediction errors and uncertainty on information gain, which we termed the arousal crossover effect. (figshare.com)