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Empirical aesthetics of bridges. [PDF]
PLoS OneBridges are works of public infrastructure designed to perform a practical function. They are unique among works of engineering in that they also have a significant aesthetic dimension. At their best, they inspire awe and wonder. At their worst, they are eyesores. Little is known about what shapes the aesthetic appeal of bridges.
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Introduction to Empirical Aesthetics
Aesthetic Investigations, 2020 Introduction by the guest editor to the special issue on empirical aesthetics.
James R Hamilton
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Art and Perception: Using Empirical Aesthetics in Research on Consciousness [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Matthew Pelowski +2 more
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Assessing Aesthetic Impressions With Pictorial Measures: A Novel Approach in Empirical Aesthetics [PDF]
I-PerceptionIvan Z Stojilovic
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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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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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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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