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Empirical Aesthetics: An overview
, 2021 This chapter offers a general overview of Empirical Aesthetics. It begins with a definition of the field’s main goals, a summary of its history from its modern foundations to the 1990s, and an introduction to contemporary accounts of aesthetic appreciation.
Marcos Nadal, Oshin Vartanian
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Scientific Reports, 2021 While there is an increasing shift in cognitive science to study perception of naturalistic stimuli, this study extends this goal to naturalistic contexts by assessing physiological synchrony across audience members in a concert setting ...
Anna Czepiel +5 more
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Effects of disliked music on psychophysiology
Scientific Reports, 2023 While previous research has shown the positive effects of music listening in response to one’s favorite music, the negative effects of one’s most disliked music have not gained much attention.
Julia Merrill +2 more
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Reliable estimation of internal oscillator properties from a novel, fast-paced tapping paradigm
Scientific Reports, 2022 Rhythmic structure in speech, music, and other auditory signals helps us track, anticipate, and understand the sounds in our environment. The dynamic attending framework proposes that biological systems possess internal rhythms, generated via oscillatory
Ece Kaya, Molly J. Henry
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Who reads contemporary erotic novels and why?
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2021 In the wake of EL James’s series Fifty Shades of Grey, the book market has seen a veritable surge of bestselling erotic novels over the past decade. The online study reported here pursued two questions: (1) Who reads these erotic novels? (2) What are the
Maria Kraxenberger +2 more
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The paradoxical role of emotional intensity in the perception of vocal affect
Scientific Reports, 2021 Vocalizations including laughter, cries, moans, or screams constitute a potent source of information about the affective states of others. It is typically conjectured that the higher the intensity of the expressed emotion, the better the classification ...
N. Holz, P. Larrouy-Maestri, D. Poeppel
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Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics. [PDF]
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2013 The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possibilities that research on dance appreciation offers empirical aesthetics, as well as the challenges it poses. Behavioral and neuroimaging approaches have, to date, mainly focused on the perception and recognition of human body movement and structure.
Christensen, J.F., Calvo-Merino, B.
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A 5-emotions stimuli set for emotion perception research with full-body dance movements
Scientific Reports, 2023 Ekman famously contended that there are different channels of emotional expression (face, voice, body), and that emotion recognition ability confers an adaptive advantage to the individual.
Julia F. Christensen +7 more
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Dynamics of Functional Networks for Syllable and Word-Level Processing
Neurobiology of Language, 2023 Speech comprehension requires the ability to temporally segment the acoustic input for higher-level linguistic analysis. Oscillation-based approaches suggest that low-frequency auditory cortex oscillations track syllable-sized acoustic information and ...
Johanna M. Rimmele +4 more
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How being perceived to be an artist boosts feelings of attraction in others
Scientific Reports, 2023 Music production is a universal phenomenon reaching far back into our past. Given its ubiquity, evolution theorists have postulated adaptive functions for music, such as strengthening in-group cohesion, intimidating enemies, or promoting child bonding ...
Eugen Wassiliwizky +2 more
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