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Contemporary Experimental Aesthetics: State of the Art Technology [PDF]

open access: yesi-Perception, 2011
The purpose of this essay is to provide the reader with a brief overview of several recent person-artifact-context relational models that explain the complex interaction of the processes that underlie an ongoing aesthetic experience with visual art forms.
Paul Locher
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Fractality and Variability in Canonical and Non-Canonical English Fiction and in Non-Fictional Texts

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study investigates global properties of three categories of English text: canonical fiction, non-canonical fiction, and non-fictional texts. The central hypothesis of the study is that there are systematic differences with respect to structural ...
Mahdi Mohseni   +3 more
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Statistical image properties predict aesthetic ratings in abstract paintings created by neural style transfer

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
Artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful computational tool to create artworks. One application is Neural Style Transfer, which allows to transfer the style of one image, such as a painting, onto the content of another image, such as a ...
Hannah Alexa Geller   +3 more
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An Evaluation Study of Shading Devices and Their Impact on the Aesthetic Perception vs. Their Energy Efficiency

open access: yesJournal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2023
Sunlight control tools, such as shading devices, are used to improve buildings' thermal and visual conditions. One of the concerns about using shading devices is their potential to harm the visual appearance of buildings.
Anwar Ibrahim   +2 more
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Neural processing of poems and songs is based on melodic properties

open access: yesNeuroImage, 2022
The neural processing of speech and music is still a matter of debate. A long tradition that assumes shared processing capacities for the two domains contrasts with views that assume domain-specific processing.
Mathias Scharinger   +3 more
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Negative Aesthetics from the Perspective of Arnold Berleant [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت و فلسفه, 2023
By focusing on sensory experience in Aesthetics, which is not always associated with positive feelings, Arnold Berleant analyzes the question of why and how Aesthetic values are negative, so that the scope of Aesthetics goes beyond "Beauty" and its ...
Mohammad hasan Emami, AMIR NASRI
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Global Image Properties Predict Ratings of Affective Pictures

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Affective pictures are widely used in studies of human emotions. The objects or scenes shown in affective pictures play a pivotal role in eliciting particular emotions.
Christoph Redies   +4 more
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Music Listening in Classical Concerts: Theory, Literature Review, and Research Program

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Performing and listening to music occurs in specific situations, requiring specific media. Empirical research on music listening and appreciation, however, tends to overlook the effects these situations and media may have on the listening experience ...
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann   +10 more
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The Vanity of Small Differences

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2020
To what extent are factors that are extrinsic to the artwork relevant to judgements of artistic value? One might approach this question using traditional philosophical methods, but one can also approach it using empirical methods; that is, by doing ...
Shen-yi Liao   +2 more
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Aesthetic Adjectives: Experimental Semantics and Context‐Sensitivity [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2015
One aim of this essay is to contribute to understanding aesthetic communication—the process by which agents aim to convey thoughts and transmit knowledge about aesthetic matters to others. Our focus will be on the use of aesthetic adjectives in aesthetic communication.
Liao, S-Y, Meskin, A
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