Abstract
The appearance of schemes when recognising aesthetic stimuli. An experiment about schemes formation when recognizing aesthetic stimuli has been performed in the context of a wide research in Psychology of Art. Participants with and without previous experience in History of Art were exposed to aesthetic stimuli of diverse categories: High Art vs. Popular Art / abstract vs. representational pictures. Signal Detection Theory was used as the technical framework in data analysis. The results allow detecting how two different kinds of schemes appear -content and style schemes. Previous teaching in History of Art improves familiarity with High Art stimuli, and mostly increases the capacity to establish schemes of style.
