Neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences.
The current study investigates the neural correlates when processing prototypicality and simplicity-affecting the preference of product design. Despite its significance, not much is known about how our brain processes these visual qualities of design when forming design preferences. We posit that, a...
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| description | The current study investigates the neural correlates when processing prototypicality and simplicity-affecting the preference of product design. Despite its significance, not much is known about how our brain processes these visual qualities of design when forming design preferences. We posit that, although fluency is the perceptual judgment accounting for the positive effects of both prototypicality and simplicity on design preference, the neural substrates for the fluency judgment associated with prototypicality would differ from those associated with simplicity. To investigate these issues, we conducted an fMRI study of preference decisions for actual product designs with different levels of prototypicality and simplicity. The results show a significant functional gradient between the preference processing of simplicity and prototypicality-i.e., involvement of the early ventral stream of visual information processing for simplicity evaluation but recruitment of the late ventral stream and parietal-frontal brain regions for prototypicality evaluation. The interaction between the simplicity and prototypicality evaluations was found in the extrastriate cortex in the right hemisphere. The segregated brain involvements suggest that the fluency judgment for prototypicality and simplicity contribute to preference choice in different levels of cognitive hierarchy in the perceptual mechanism of the design preference. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fcc490eb44064818a2f5ac10c421a1332024-01-22T05:31:14ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032024-01-01191e029714810.1371/journal.pone.0297148Neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences.Erin ChoShin-Ae YoonHae-Jeong ParkThe current study investigates the neural correlates when processing prototypicality and simplicity-affecting the preference of product design. Despite its significance, not much is known about how our brain processes these visual qualities of design when forming design preferences. We posit that, although fluency is the perceptual judgment accounting for the positive effects of both prototypicality and simplicity on design preference, the neural substrates for the fluency judgment associated with prototypicality would differ from those associated with simplicity. To investigate these issues, we conducted an fMRI study of preference decisions for actual product designs with different levels of prototypicality and simplicity. The results show a significant functional gradient between the preference processing of simplicity and prototypicality-i.e., involvement of the early ventral stream of visual information processing for simplicity evaluation but recruitment of the late ventral stream and parietal-frontal brain regions for prototypicality evaluation. The interaction between the simplicity and prototypicality evaluations was found in the extrastriate cortex in the right hemisphere. The segregated brain involvements suggest that the fluency judgment for prototypicality and simplicity contribute to preference choice in different levels of cognitive hierarchy in the perceptual mechanism of the design preference.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297148&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Erin Cho Shin-Ae Yoon Hae-Jeong Park Neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences. PLoS ONE |
| title | Neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences. |
| title_full | Neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences. |
| title_fullStr | Neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences. |
| title_short | Neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences. |
| title_sort | neural processing of prototypicality and simplicity of product design in forming design preferences |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0297148&type=printable |
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