An fMRI study of crossmodal emotional congruency and the role of semantic content in the aesthetic appreciation of naturalistic art by Funda Yilmaz, Tessa M. van Leeuwen, Tessa M. van Leeuwen, Umut Güçlü, Yağmur Güçlütürk, Rob van Lier

“…This demonstrates that emotional congruency not only increased beauty ratings but also increased the in-depth processing of the paintings. For incongruent versus congruent comparisons, the results suggest that a frontoparietal network and caudate may be involved in emotional incongruency. …”
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