Motion, emotion and empathy in esthetic experience

The first response focuses on the possibility of developing conscious awareness of one’s sensory experience. A second response suggests that the development of such awareness may not be necessary for one’s sensory experience to be aesthetically relevant. In psychological studies of unconscious cognition, such as the cocktail party effect, subjects listen to two streams of spoken language, one through each side of a pair of headphones, but are instructed to attend to only one.