The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain

By R. L. Solso. 2003

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Determinants of Impact: Towards a Better Understanding of Encounters with the Arts (2007, background): “Experimental psychologist Robert L. Solso (2003), for instance, underlines the subjectivity—and therefore non-communicability—of our perceptual experience, of the arts as well as of all other aspects of human life.”
Integrating art historical, psychological, and neuroscientific explanations of artists' advantages in drawing and perception. (2007, methodology): “His conception of schemata is similar to that used in cognitive psychology (e.g., Rumelhart, 1980; Solso, 2003): a general mental structure used to organize knowledge and increase understanding, which generates expectations about a situation.”
Facets of visual aesthetics (2010, methodology): “, 2003), as well as contrast and clarity (Gombrich, 1995; Solso, 2003).”