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The Fluency Amplification Model supports the GANE principle of arousal enhancement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2017

Claus-Christian Carbon  and
Sabine Albrecht
Claus-Christian Carbon
Affiliation:
Department of General Psychology and Methodology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany Forschungsgruppe EPÆG (Ergonomie, Psychologische Æsthetik, Gestalt), Bamberg, Germany ccc@experimental-psychology.com www.experimental-psychology.com Bamberg Graduate School of Affective and Cognitive Sciences (BaGrACS), Bamberg, Germany sabine.albrecht@uni-bamberg.de
Sabine Albrecht
Affiliation:
Department of General Psychology and Methodology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany Forschungsgruppe EPÆG (Ergonomie, Psychologische Æsthetik, Gestalt), Bamberg, Germany ccc@experimental-psychology.com www.experimental-psychology.com Bamberg Graduate School of Affective and Cognitive Sciences (BaGrACS), Bamberg, Germany sabine.albrecht@uni-bamberg.de
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Abstract

The GANE (glutamate amplifies noradrenergic effects) model described by Mather et al. offers a neurophysiological basis for the arousal mechanism which is essential for empirical aesthetics and Gestalt processing. More generally, the core principle of perception can be interpreted as a continuous processing of competing arousal states, yielding selective amplification and inhibition of percepts to deduce the meaning of a scene.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e204
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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