The use of artificially simple material overcomes this drawback but may be open to the criticism that it is a long way from anything that could be regarded as art and may thus prevent us from identifying essential components of real-life aesthetic behavior” (Berlyne, 1971, p. 12). We believe that the introduction of adequate control procedures reduces many of the disadvantages of using artistic and decorative materials, and that the use of simple visual patterns might engage different cognitive operations to those that enable aesthetic appreciation in natural conditions. Furthermore, given that symmetry is a very salient feature of the materials used by Jacobsen et al. (2006), their results.
