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International Association for Empirical Aesthetics

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IAEA is an organization of researchers who use scientific methods to investigate aesthetic valuation, experience and behavior. IAEA hosts a bi-annual conference and has an affiliated journal, Empirical Studies of the Arts. https://iaea-aesthetics.org

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

A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics researchers.
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#neuroaesthetics

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Zorana Ivcevic Pringle @z-i-pringle.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to share a call for articles for a special issue of Education Sciences on #aesthetics #creativity and #emotionalintelligence @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
that I am co-editing w/ John Pellitteri and Jessica Hoffmann
@iaea-aesthetics.bsky.social
More: www.mdpi.com/journal/educ...

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Edward Vessel @edwardvessel.bsky.social · Aug 29

I've been selected as a 2026 Osher Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences (@calacademy.bsky.social), for a project with Indre Viskontas (@indrevis.bsky.social) and Cal Academy. Thanks so much to Rhonda Rubenstein and for facilitating this opportunity!

www.calacademy.org/osher-fellows

Osher Fellows

Osher Fellows bring their world-renowned creative expertise to the Academy's science learning programs.

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Anjan Chatterjee @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social · Aug 15

A report on our recent study on nature and biophilic design. Designing for the Mind | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Designing for the Mind

Does nature, or nature-inspired interior design, help restore fatigued attention, ameliorate stress, and make us more creative?

www.psychologytoday.com

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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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Amanda Krause @studylistening.bsky.social · Aug 18

Nice to see this article out in issue! #MusicScience
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cc: @jasongoopy.bsky.social @melissaforbes.bsky.social

I did a #PubChat thread over on the other site, so repeating it here:

Becoming singular: Musical identity construction and maintenance through the lens of identity process theory - Melissa Forbes, Jason Goopy, Amanda E Krause, 2025

This study uses identity process theory to understand the social–psychological processes that motivate individuals to construct an identity in which music, sing...

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tal boger @talboger.bsky.social · Aug 19

Next, aesthetic preferences. People think real-world large objects look better when displayed large, and vice versa for small objects. Our experiments show that this is true with anagrams too!

people prefer to view real-world large objects as larger than real-world small objects, even with visual anagrams.

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Zorana Ivcevic Pringle @z-i-pringle.bsky.social · Aug 19

@ibdinvestors.bsky.social reminding us that creativity is much than good or even brilliant ideas. We need to move on it and that is hard

#TheCreativityChoice #creativity #Innovation #IDEAS
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Eline Van Geert @elinevg.bsky.social · Aug 20

Looking forward to #ECVP2025 Demo Night om Aug 26th! Come challenge yourself to create the most complex OCTA stimulus and check its numeric complexity with the QIP machine of the Aesthetics Toolbox!

Lisa Kossmann @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social · Aug 19

Come find @elinevg.bsky.social and myself at #ECVP2025 Demo Night to challenge your colleagues to a fun little game around visual complexity using the #octatoolbox and the #QIPMachine of the #AestheticsToolbox!

A promotional poster for the demonstration mentioned in the post, titled the OCTA and QIP Challenge. The poster features some text and three stimuli created work OCTA of varying arrangements of squares, circles and triangles in grids and a butterfly shape.

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Inner Music and Wellbeing Network @innermusicgroup.bsky.social · Aug 20

💥 Call for Contributions 💥

We are seeking contributions for our symposium at Durham University, 18–19 May 2026.

Deadline: 4 Nov 2025.

Full details below 👇

musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...

International Symposium — Call for Contributions - The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network

What does it mean to imagine music? The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network invites proposals for its inaugural international symposium, held at Durham University, UK, 18–19 May 2026. The event brings t...

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Bani Malhotra, Ph.D., ATR-BC @banimalhotra.bsky.social · Aug 21

Work with receptive art engagement, museums, or teach students in close looking? Here's our framework of how seamlessly Visual Thinning Strategies can be integrated in art therapy. Interested to know more?Attend our panel at AATA's virtual art therapy conference www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ART-UP: Making the case for visual thinking strategies in art therapy pedagogy, practice, and research

Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is an art-education technique commonly used to enhance observation and critical thinking skills. Since the use of vis…

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 21

Zsofia Pilz discusses her study of how information in labels influences visitors’ viewing patterns and experiences of artworks the Rijksmuseum.

#VSAC2025

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GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 19

Also on Friday, Elisabeth Van der Hulst is part of the symposium "Temporal dynamics of cognitive processes underlying aesthetic experience" organized by @bvb373.bsky.social and @hongbnguyen.bsky.social with her talk: "In pursuit of movement: Choreographic complexity and viewing behavior in dance"⬇️

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VSAC 2025 @vsac-social.bsky.social · Aug 22

Thank you to our speakers and attendees for a fantastic first day!

#vsac2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 22

Johan Wagemans gives the Visual Science of Art Conference a taste of the latest results from his lab’s impressive Gestalts Relate Aesthetic Preferences to Perceptual Analysis (GRAPPA) project.

#VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 22

Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social speaking about perceptual animacy and predictive processing at the Visual Science of Art Conference.

#VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ronald Hübner on Gustav Fechner’s origins:

#VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 23

Anna Miscenà discussing the use of connoisseurs to determine the provenance of a painting.

#VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 23

Dirk Walther presenting his lab’s work demonstrating an inverse relationship between the metabolic cost of visual processing and aesthetic judgments.

#VSAC2025

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VSAC 2025 @vsac-social.bsky.social · Aug 23

Day 2 of the conference was a true celebration of science and art—thank you to all the scientists and artists for the inspiring talks and beautiful installations. Your work made the day unforgettable! #VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 23

Branke Spehar discussing individual differences in how image features drive aesthetic preferences.

#VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 23

Maya Theresia Laughton presenting a beautiful film weaving together ideas from science and Hindu spirituality, called ‘Noumenon’. She made the film in collaboration with Janna Kyllästinen, as part of the Science New Wave Festival.

#VSAC2025

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Ben van Buren @bvb373.bsky.social · Aug 23

Maarten Leemans using image aesthetic mapping to explore the impact of details on the visual inspection of art photographs and paintings.

#VSAC2025

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Lisa Kossmann @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social · Aug 24

Come find me at my #ECVP2025 poster to chat about image fidelity in the #WikiArt image dataset!

GestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · Aug 24

📊 @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social will present her poster „Evaluating the WikiArt Dataset using Quantitative Image Properties, Ratings, and Art History“ in the first Poster Session on Monday at 10:00-11:30.

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Ceren Ayyildiz @cerenayyildiz.bsky.social · Aug 25

The first study from my PhD project is now available! 🎉

"Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery"

Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social.

Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery

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Psyche Loui @psycheloui.bsky.social · Aug 25

New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience

Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not

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