Aesthetic Perception and Analysis

How artists experience their own art

This study investigates how professional artists experience their own art using fMRI, finding distinct brain activity patterns during self-art appreciation and mental reconstruction of their creative process.

Cross Domain Consistency of Aesthetic Preference-driven Social Behavior

The paper investigates cross-domain consistency in aesthetic preferences and finds that preferences across art, faces, and scenes are governed by a domain-invariant latent structure.

Dynamic neural representations of scene beauty are relatively unaffected by stimulus timing and task

The paper investigates how presentation time and task affect neural representations of scene beauty using EEG, finding they are largely unaffected.

Art's Hidden Topology: A window into human perception

The paper uses persistent homology to analyze visual structures in abstract paintings and maps topological features to viewer eye tracking and EEG data.

Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity

The paper investigates brain activity during architectural experience, showing how prefrontal and hippocampal regions respond to spatial complexity and aesthetic qualities using fMRI and first-person videos.

Repeated Exposure Decreases Aesthetic Chills Likelihood but Increases Intensity

This study examines how repeated exposure to aesthetic stimuli affects the likelihood and intensity of chills, finding decreased likelihood and increased intensity with repetition.

Integrative processing in artificial and biological vision predicts the perceived beauty of natural images

The paper shows that integrative processing in both artificial neural networks and human visual cortex predicts the perceived beauty of natural images.

Influence of colour vision on attention to, and impression of, complex aesthetic images

The paper investigates how colour vision differences affect attention and impression of complex aesthetic images using eye-tracking and decomposition analysis.

The neural determinants of abstract beauty

This study investigates neural correlates of abstract beauty by analyzing brain activity during aesthetic ratings of abstract paintings, finding similar patterns to facial beauty in visual and medial frontal cortex activity.

Spectral brain signatures of aesthetic natural perception in the alpha and beta frequency bands

This study links aesthetic ratings of natural scenes to spectral MEG responses in alpha and beta bands, showing these responses are distinct from visual descriptors.

Neural correlates of perceiving and interpreting engraved prehistoric patterns as human production: effect of archaeological expertise.

The paper examines brain activity during perception of prehistoric engravings versus natural patterns, finding differences in expert and non-expert participants.

Naturalistic viewing conditions can increase task engagement and aesthetic preference but have only minimal impact on EEG quality

This study examines how different experimental conditions affect EEG quality, aesthetic preference, and task engagement during visual aesthetic rating tasks.

On the Etiology of Aesthetic Chills: a Behavioral Genetic Study

This study investigates the genetic and environmental factors influencing the propensity to experience aesthetic chills using twin data, finding a heritability estimate of 0.36.

On the neuronal dynamics of aesthetic experience: Evidence from electroencephalographic oscillatory dynamics

The paper investigates the neuronal dynamics of aesthetic experience using EEG, finding sustained gamma activity and reduced alpha power associated with aesthetically moving artworks.

Characterizing dynamic neural representations of scene attractiveness

The paper uses EEG and multivariate pattern analysis to show that scene attractiveness is represented in early brain signals within 200ms of vision, with individual preference variation and generalization across scene types.

Differences in Regional Grey Matter Volume Predict the Extent to which Openness influences Judgments of Beauty and Pleasantness of Interior Architectural Spaces

The paper investigates how regional grey matter volume correlates with individual differences in evaluating beauty and pleasantness of interior spaces based on openness, contour, and ceiling height.

Seeking the beauty center in the brain: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies of beautiful human faces and visual art

This study meta-analyzes fMRI data to compare brain regions activated by the perception of beautiful human faces and visual art, finding distinct regions for each.

The processing of color preference in the brain

This study uses fMRI to show that color preference modulates brain activity in the posterior midline cortex, even when preferences are task-irrelevant, suggesting automatic encoding of subjective value for basic visual features.

The Biological Basis of Mathematical Beauty

The paper investigates whether mathematical beauty is biologically or culturally determined, finding that it exhibits less variability in aesthetic ratings, aligning with biological beauty.