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Common brain representations of action and perception investigated with cross-modal classification of newly learned melodies

open access: yesScientific Reports
An important feature of human cognition is the ability to predict sensory outcomes of motor actions and infer actions from sensory information – a process enabled by action-perception coupling.
Yu-Hsin Fiona Chang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Gallery Lighting Really Have an Impact on Appreciation of Art? An Ecologically Valid Study of Lighting Changes and the Assessment and Emotional Experience With Representational and Abstract Paintings

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
We report two studies considering the potential for gallery lighting conditions to modulate appraisals and emotional experience with works of visual art.
Matthew Pelowski   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Kantian Analytic of the Ugly [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Kant’s theory of taste, as expounded in the Critique of Judgment, deals exhaustively with judgments of beauty. Rarely does Kant mention ugliness. This omission has led to a debate among commentators about how judgments of ugliness should be explained in ...
Buckman, Christopher
core  

Open Space Policy‐Making and Planning in Urban Regions: Towards a Theoretical Approach Based on the Multiple Streams Framework

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Open space networks provide multiple ecosystem services and other benefits which are particularly important to urban regions. Accordingly, there are many examples around the world of urban‐regional open space policies such as regional parks and green belts that connect non‐built‐up areas over several municipalities. Yet it is still unclear how
Gerd Lintz, Mariam Diagayété
wiley   +1 more source

Perceiving pictures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
I aim to give a new account of picture perception: of the way our visual system functions when we see something in a picture. My argument relies on the functional distinction between the ventral and dorsal visual subsystems.
Nanay, Bence
core   +1 more source

Health Preferences and Sorting in the City

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There are large health inequalities between neighborhoods in many cities of the world. This paper studies individuals' sorting based on health amenities and exposes an important connection between health preferences and the housing market. I estimate a neighborhood choice model using geolocated data from a health survey in New York City and ...
Manuela Puente‐Beccar
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Optimal Reading Experiences: The Reading Flow Short Scale

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2018
In transferring the concept of flow to the context of fiction reading a new approach to understanding the evolvement of reading pleasure is provided. This study presents the Reading Flow Short Scale (RFSS), the first reading-specific flow measurement ...
Birte A. K. Thissen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Turning Down Mum's Cooking: The Ethics of Dietary Difference within Families

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although food ethicists have called for greater attention to the relational context of eating for over a decade, the context of ‘eating with family’ remains largely ignored. But the family is both a morally specific relational context and one within which many people do most of their eating.
Megan A. Dean
wiley   +1 more source

Autonomy in Video Games and Gamification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the past decade, gamification (using game elements in non-gaming tasks to enhance motivation and engagement) has become a popular concept in many industries, but few studies have explored the principles under which it works.
Leventhal, Jonathan
core   +1 more source

On the Transformative Nature of Luxury Consumption and Consumer Well‐Being: A Systematic Literature Review and Research Agenda

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Consuming luxury products and services has received little systematic attention as a potential pathway to consumer well‐being, despite sporadic evidence suggesting that luxury experiences may catalyse self‐transformational processes and happiness‐related outcomes.
Solon Magrizos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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