The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that our mind processes abstract art and figurative art very differently. | AFP
While the artworks ranged from figurative to semi-representational to purely abstract, participants were invited to place each painting in an exhibition.
Participants consistently placed more abstract paintings in the hypothetical exhibitions held far away in the distant future, while more figurative pieces went to the shows held closer in time and space. While these results might come as a surprise, researcher Daphna Shohamy notes that we tend to think of psychologically distant moments in terms of concepts rather than details.
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