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Article

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

by
Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière
1,2,
Catherine Thomas-Anterion
3,4,
Anne-Laure Deruet
1,
Estelle Lamy
1 and
Mohamad El Haj
2,5,6,7,*
1
INSERM, CMRR Neurologie, CHU Nantes, Nantes Université, CIC 04, 44000 Nantes, France
2
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Nantes Université, Université Angers, LPPL, UR 4638, 44000 Nantes, France
3
Laboratoire d’Etudes des Mécanismes Cognitifs, EA 3082, Université Lyon 2, 69500 Bron, France
4
Plein-Ciel, 69007 Lyon, France
5
Clinical Gerontology Department, CHU Nantes, Bd Jacques Monod, 44093 Nantes, France
6
Institut Universitaire de France, 75005 Paris, France
7
LPPL—Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, Faculté de Psychologie, Université de Nantes, Chemin de la Censive du Tertre, BP 81227, CEDEX 3, 44312 Nantes, France
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Brain Sci. 2024, 14(5), 500; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14050500
Submission received: 30 April 2024 / Revised: 11 May 2024 / Accepted: 13 May 2024 / Published: 15 May 2024
(This article belongs to the Section Neurodegenerative Diseases)
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Abstract

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.
Keywords: aesthetic; arts; behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; frontotemporal dementia; neuroaesthetics aesthetic; arts; behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia; frontotemporal dementia; neuroaesthetics

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Boutoleau-Bretonnière, C.; Thomas-Anterion, C.; Deruet, A.-L.; Lamy, E.; El Haj, M. Beauty and Paintings: Aesthetic Experience in Patients with Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia When Viewing Abstract and Concrete Paintings. Brain Sci. 2024, 14, 500. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14050500

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Boutoleau-Bretonnière C, Thomas-Anterion C, Deruet A-L, Lamy E, El Haj M. Beauty and Paintings: Aesthetic Experience in Patients with Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia When Viewing Abstract and Concrete Paintings. Brain Sciences. 2024; 14(5):500. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14050500

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Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Claire, Catherine Thomas-Anterion, Anne-Laure Deruet, Estelle Lamy, and Mohamad El Haj. 2024. "Beauty and Paintings: Aesthetic Experience in Patients with Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia When Viewing Abstract and Concrete Paintings" Brain Sciences 14, no. 5: 500. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14050500

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Boutoleau-Bretonnière, C., Thomas-Anterion, C., Deruet, A.-L., Lamy, E., & El Haj, M. (2024). Beauty and Paintings: Aesthetic Experience in Patients with Behavioral Variant Frontotemporal Dementia When Viewing Abstract and Concrete Paintings. Brain Sciences, 14(5), 500. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14050500

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