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Aenne Brielmann @aennebrielmann.bsky.social · 1d

I finally have some new work to share - some thoughts on how we perceive style with a sprinkle of aesthetics, Fechner, and most importantly: labradors 🐕

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How do we see style?

In a recent series of experiments, Boger and Firestone ask: How do we perceive style?’. Their findings suggest that style perception relies on basic p…

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Mustafa Alp Ekinci @alpekinci.bsky.social · Aug 19

Looking forward to #VSAC2025 ! I’ll present my poster on how eye movements relate to aesthetic preferences in Poster Session 1.

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Aesthetics & Learning Lab (ALL) @allab-iwm.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hi Bluesky! 🦋

We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨

Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!

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Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics @pcfn.bsky.social · May 20

Why use our new library of 300+ art images for your experiment?
🌍 Intentionally inclusive of non-Western art
😀😵‍💫😢 Normed for 11 emotional states each
📊 Interactive data viz for stimulus selection
Got questions? Let us know!
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APA PsycNet

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · May 23

Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster „The Adaptive Mind“ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. 🎆✨🥂

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Creativity Research Journal @creativity-journal.bsky.social · May 9

Hi, Bluesky! 👋

We're Creativity Research Journal (CRJ), here to highlight some of the great scientific work being done in the field of creativity research. We're the official journal of @tsfnc.bsky.social. Check out some of our latest articles here! www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...

Creativity Research Journal

Publishes research on various approaches to the study of creativity, including behavioral, clinical, educational, genetic, psychoanalytic, social and more.

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · May 8

JOB ALERT!

2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults.

Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...

Emotion communication in ASD bodies and brains through visual art — Artis Lab

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COCOCOlab @co3lab.bsky.social · Apr 29

We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring a funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959

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Edward Vessel @edwardvessel.bsky.social · Apr 24

I was interviewed as part of this article on Neuroaesthetics. Also featuring @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social

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Neuroaesthetics: Unlocking How Art Can Make Us Smarter, Happier, and Healthier

Neuroaesthetics, an emerging field of research, studies how the arts can enhance our health and wellbeing.

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VSAC 2025 @vsac-social.bsky.social · Apr 13

We are excited to host you this year at the Museum Reinhard Ernst! The museum exclusively features abstract art and will stay open late on the 22nd for #VSAC2025 attendees to marvel at their extensive collection.

Link: www.museum-re.de/en/

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Mar 26

Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! Check out Gongting Wang's EEG work on individual differences in scene perception: Scenes that are more typical for individual observers are represented in an enhanced yet more idiosyncratic way. Link:
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Enhanced and idiosyncratic neural representations of personally typical scenes | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Previous research shows that the typicality of visual scenes (i.e. if they are good examples of a category) determines how easily they can be perceived and represented in the brain. However, the uniqu...

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · Mar 25

While we sadly had to say goodbye to Eva in the EVAlabs, two new people will have the chance to say hello to her at her new lab in Tübingen @iwmtue.bsky.social

www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...

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Lisa Kossmann @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social · Mar 17

Happy to share our paper on the #AestheticsToolbox around the #QIP-Machine has been published #OpenAccsess in Behavior Research Methods!

It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

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Martin Skov @mskov01.bsky.social · Mar 14

"Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique" by @mnadal.bsky.social and I has been accepted for publication in Physics of Life Reviews.

The pre-proof version is online at the following URL:
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Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique

Can art improve health and wellbeing? The claim that there is strong evidence that engaging with art ameliorates symptoms of mental and physical disor…

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VSAC 2025 @vsac-social.bsky.social · Mar 2

VSAC 2025 is honoured to welcome our keynote speakers!

One of them will be Aaron Hertzmann. @aaronhertzmann.bsky.social

Find more information on 2025.vsac.eu
#VSAC2025 #Conference #VisualScienceofArt
VISUAL SCIENCE OF ARI
Keynote

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Feb 18

Job alert! We are now looking for a PhD student starting Sept 2025, for a project on visual relations between people and objects, using behavior, EEG, fMRI, and ANNs. The project involves a collaboration with brilliant @ljubapi.bsky.social. You can find the official advertisement below.👇

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Mustafa Alp Ekinci @alpekinci.bsky.social · Jan 30

We discussed the possible roles of aesthetic pleasure in evolution a bit at the journal club this week, and this makes for a good follow-up read:

Dirk Bernhardt-Walther @dirkbwalther.bsky.social · Jan 29

Energy efficiency drives evolution, and humans may have evolved pleasure-based signals to optimize actions. Does this extend to aesthetic pleasure?

Yes!

We find strong evidence in silico and human observers!
osf.io/preprints/ps...

With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham.
@uoftpsychology.bsky.social

Conceptual Roadmap of the present study. To examine the relationship between the metabolic costs of visual processing and aesthetic pleasure, we used both computational and physiological measures to quantify metabolic costs during visual processing: 1. Model-derived estimates of metabolic costs based on the activation of a deep neural network; 2. Metabolic activity of human brains, specifically in the visual processing areas. We found that both measures were inversely related to aesthetic pleasure.

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International Association for Empirical Aesthetics @iaea-aesthetics.bsky.social · Jan 24

A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics researchers.
go.bsky.app/HKuJYiw
#empiricalaesthetics
#neuroaesthetics

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Anjan Chatterjee @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social · Jan 17

In recognition of Segio Della Sall's innovative use of artwork for the journal Cortex, I wrote this piece about using imagery to enhance curiosity about neuroscience papers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSNC2VHYC...

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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · Jan 16

Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents

Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…

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Mustafa Alp Ekinci @alpekinci.bsky.social · Jan 14

#vsac

VSAC 2025 @vsac-social.bsky.social · Jan 14

VSAC 2025: Call for abstracts and symposia!
Submit your proposal at 2025.vsac.eu/submission
We look forward to hearing about your work!

#art #science #visualartofscience #conference #vsac #visualart #artscience #illusionart

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft @dfg.de · Jan 14

Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Jan 7

Come work as a postdoctoral researcher in our research group at KU Leuven in Belgium and help us unravel the visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Postdoc position “Visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences”

Exciting opportunity for a postdoc interested in visual aesthetic preferences!

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University of Toronto Psychology @uoftpsychology.bsky.social · Jan 8

Prof. Oshin Vartanian, PhD student Delaram Farzanfar & Prof. @dirkbwalther.bsky.social use brain imaging data & computational measures of curvature to unravel one of the most robust findings in empirical aesthetics www.psych.utoronto.ca/news/why-do-...

Why do we prefer curves over straight edges?

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Anjan Chatterjee @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social · Dec 22

The New Romantics. As folks reflect on the year and their best of lists, this @psychologytoday.com blog was my favorite piece of what I wrote. #sciart
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The New Romantics

Artists, thinkers, designers, and scientists are converging on the value of art, aesthetics and nature, parallelling earlier Romantics’ response to science and tech gone awry.

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