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Music Listening in Classical Concerts: Theory, Literature Review, and Research Program
Frontiers 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
Aesthetic 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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Statistical Image Properties in Works from the Prinzhorn Collection of Artists with Schizophrenia
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2017 The Prinzhorn Collection preserves and exhibits thousands of visual artworks by patients who were diagnosed to suffer from mental disease. From this collection, we analyzed 1,256 images by 14 artists who were diagnosed with dementia praecox or ...
Gudrun Maria Henemann +2 more
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Experimental Aesthetics and Conceptual Engineering
Erkenntnis, 2022 AbstractExperimental Philosophy (X-Phi) is now a fully-fledged methodological project with applications in almost all areas of analytic philosophy, including, as of recently, aesthetics. Another methodological project which has been attracting attention in the last few years is conceptual engineering (CE).
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Edge-Orientation Entropy Predicts Preference for Diverse Types of Man-Made Images
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2018 We recently found that luminance edges are more evenly distributed across orientations in large subsets of traditional artworks, i.e., artworks are characterized by a relatively high entropy of edge orientations, when compared to several categories of ...
Maria Grebenkina +4 more
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Using CNN Features to Better Understand What Makes Visual Artworks Special
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 One of the goal of computational aesthetics is to understand what is special about visual artworks. By analyzing image statistics, contemporary methods in computer vision enable researchers to identify properties that distinguish artworks from other (non-
Anselm Brachmann +2 more
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Approximate Entropy in Canonical and Non-Canonical Fiction
Entropy, 2022 Computational textual aesthetics aims at studying observable differences between aesthetic categories of text. We use Approximate Entropy to measure the (un)predictability in two aesthetic text categories, i.e., canonical fiction (‘classics’) and non ...
Mahdi Mohseni +2 more
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Comparative Analysis of Preference in Contemporary and Earlier Texts Using Entropy Measures
Entropy, 2023 Research in computational textual aesthetics has shown that there are textual correlates of preference in prose texts. The present study investigates whether textual correlates of preference vary across different time periods (contemporary texts versus ...
Mahdi Mohseni +2 more
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Brain Informatics, 2020 The mystery of aesthetics attracts scientists from various research fields. The topic of aesthetics, in combination with other disciplines such as neuroscience and computer science, has brought out the burgeoning fields of neuroaesthetics and ...
Rui Li, Junsong Zhang
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Image Aesthetic Assessment: An experimental survey
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2017 This survey aims at reviewing recent computer vision techniques used in the assessment of image aesthetic quality. Image aesthetic assessment aims at computationally distinguishing high-quality photos from low-quality ones based on photographic rules, typically in the form of binary classification or quality scoring.
Yubin Deng, Chen Change Loy, Xiaoou Tang
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