In this brief contribution-happily afforded by the 20th anniversary of Physics of Life Reviews-we take the opportunity to reflect on our earlier published paper, which had introduced a theoretical framework, the VIMAP (Vienna Integrated Model of (Top-Down and Bottom-up processes in) Art Perception; (Pelowski et al., [1])) that has come to represent a major basis for organizing, anticipating, and empirically investigating the nuanced, multivariate visual art experience. We look back at the original model and its hypotheses, especially as these regard distinct "outcomes," which we had argued may provide a superstructure of supraordinate, shared varieties of art experience detected across individual meetings of viewer, context, and artworks. In the present paper we consider whether these outcomes could also be a useful tool for approaching new demands across multiple art-related areas that have strengthened in the years since the original publication regarding applying the arts to wellbeing, societal challenges, and health. All of which require a framework for better understanding and testing the nuanced features of individual-centered art experience. We briefly-and admitedly very speculatively-consider how these new topics could be fit to the VIMAP [2]. Guided also by new evidence from our team that has provided a bottom-up verification of the specified outcome types and their implications, we provide a working set of suggestions whereby we might connect wellbeing- or attitude/behavioral change-related targets to the specific VIMAP outcomes, which we argue may provide a powerful mechanistic structure for future research.
值此《Physics of Life Reviews》创刊20周年之际，我们借此短文回顾此前发表的一篇论文。该论文提出了一个理论框架，即VIMAP模型（Vienna Integrated Model of Top-Down and Bottom-up Processes in Art Perception，即“维也纳艺术知觉中自上而下与自下而上过程整合模型”；Pelowski等），该模型已逐渐成为组织、预测并实证考察复杂多变量视觉艺术体验的重要理论基础。本文回顾了该模型的原始构想及其相关假设，尤其聚焦于其中关于不同“结果类型（outcomes）”的论述。我们曾主张，这些结果类型可以作为一种上位结构，用以概括并统摄在观者、情境与艺术作品具体相遇过程中所呈现的、具有共享特征的不同艺术体验形式。在本文中，我们进一步探讨，这些结果类型是否也能够作为一种有用工具，用于回应近年来在多个艺术相关领域不断增强的新需求，尤其是关于如何将艺术应用于幸福感、社会性挑战及健康促进等议题。所有这些议题都要求研究者具备一个能够更好理解并检验以个体为中心之细腻艺术体验特征的理论框架。基于此，我们简要地——并且也承认在相当程度上仍属推测性地——讨论了这些新议题如何能够被纳入VIMAP框架之中。同时，结合我们团队最新获得的证据，这些证据已从自下而上的路径对模型所提出的结果类型及其意义提供了验证，我们提出了一组工作性建议，尝试将与幸福感提升或态度/行为改变相关的目标，与VIMAP中的特定结果类型相联系。我们认为，这种联系有望为未来研究提供一种有力的机制性结构。
