A Kinetic Ecological Approach to Beauty Perception: A Perspective Review on the Case of Symmetry and the Golden Ratio
Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
Year: 2025

In the 1970s, the psychologist J.J. Gibson developed an "ecological approach to visual perception", suggesting that humans perceive the environment exploiting environmental affordances-surrounding invariant features that define possible individuals-object interactions-without top-down mediation of cognitive processes. Shepard extended this approach, suggesting that common environmental features are internalized defining perceptual constraints, such as the circadian rhythm, three-dimensional spac