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Mustafa Alp Ekinci

@alpekinci.bsky.social

PhD student in neuroaesthetics. Interested in aesthetics and visual perception. Uni of tübingen and @dkaiserlab.bsky.social

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How do we see style? In a recent series of experiments, Boger and Firestone ask: How do we perceive style?’. Their findings suggest that style perception relies on basic p…

I finally have some new work to share - some thoughts on how we perceive style with a sprinkle of aesthetics, Fechner, and most importantly: labradors 🐕

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

08.10.2025 08:59 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to #VSAC2025 ! I’ll present my poster on how eye movements relate to aesthetic preferences in Poster Session 1.

19.08.2025 19:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi Bluesky! 🦋

We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨

Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!

18.08.2025 13:41 — 👍 21    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
APA PsycNet

Why use our new library of 300+ art images for your experiment?
🌍 Intentionally inclusive of non-Western art
😀😵‍💫😢 Normed for 11 emotional states each
📊 Interactive data viz for stimulus selection
Got questions? Let us know!
doi.org/10.1037/aca0...

20.05.2025 19:20 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster „The Adaptive Mind“ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. 🎆✨🥂

23.05.2025 11:44 — 👍 22    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Creativity Research Journal Publishes research on various approaches to the study of creativity, including behavioral, clinical, educational, genetic, psychoanalytic, social and more.

Hi, Bluesky! 👋

We're Creativity Research Journal (CRJ), here to highlight some of the great scientific work being done in the field of creativity research. We're the official journal of @tsfnc.bsky.social. Check out some of our latest articles here! www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...

09.05.2025 00:05 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Emotion communication in ASD bodies and brains through visual art — Artis Lab

JOB ALERT!

2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults.

Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...

08.05.2025 14:35 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring a funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959

29.04.2025 13:46 — 👍 5    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Neuroaesthetics: Unlocking How Art Can Make Us Smarter, Happier, and Healthier Neuroaesthetics, an emerging field of research, studies how the arts can enhance our health and wellbeing.

I was interviewed as part of this article on Neuroaesthetics. Also featuring @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social

www.theoverview.art/neuroaesthet...

24.04.2025 00:17 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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We are excited to host you this year at the Museum Reinhard Ernst! The museum exclusively features abstract art and will stay open late on the 22nd for #VSAC2025 attendees to marvel at their extensive collection.

Link: www.museum-re.de/en/

13.04.2025 15:00 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Enhanced and idiosyncratic neural representations of personally typical scenes | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Previous research shows that the typicality of visual scenes (i.e. if they are good examples of a category) determines how easily they can be perceived and represented in the brain. However, the uniqu...

Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! Check out Gongting Wang's EEG work on individual differences in scene perception: Scenes that are more typical for individual observers are represented in an enhanced yet more idiosyncratic way. Link:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

26.03.2025 11:43 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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While we sadly had to say goodbye to Eva in the EVAlabs, two new people will have the chance to say hello to her at her new lab in Tübingen @iwmtue.bsky.social

www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...

25.03.2025 19:53 — 👍 8    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to share our paper on the #AestheticsToolbox around the #QIP-Machine has been published #OpenAccsess in Behavior Research Methods!

It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...

17.03.2025 16:30 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1
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Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique Can art improve health and wellbeing? The claim that there is strong evidence that engaging with art ameliorates symptoms of mental and physical disor…

"Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique" by @mnadal.bsky.social and I has been accepted for publication in Physics of Life Reviews.

The pre-proof version is online at the following URL:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

14.03.2025 10:18 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1
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VSAC 2025 is honoured to welcome our keynote speakers!

One of them will be Aaron Hertzmann. @aaronhertzmann.bsky.social

Find more information on 2025.vsac.eu
#VSAC2025 #Conference #VisualScienceofArt
VISUAL SCIENCE OF ARI
Keynote

02.03.2025 15:24 — 👍 19    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Job alert! We are now looking for a PhD student starting Sept 2025, for a project on visual relations between people and objects, using behavior, EEG, fMRI, and ANNs. The project involves a collaboration with brilliant @ljubapi.bsky.social. You can find the official advertisement below.👇

18.02.2025 15:36 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

We discussed the possible roles of aesthetic pleasure in evolution a bit at the journal club this week, and this makes for a good follow-up read:

30.01.2025 11:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics researchers.
go.bsky.app/HKuJYiw
#empiricalaesthetics
#neuroaesthetics

24.01.2025 19:18 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

In recognition of Segio Della Sall's innovative use of artwork for the journal Cortex, I wrote this piece about using imagery to enhance curiosity about neuroscience papers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSNC2VHYC...

17.01.2025 21:35 — 👍 15    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…

Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

16.01.2025 08:46 — 👍 55    🔁 26    💬 0    📌 1

#vsac

14.01.2025 15:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!

14.01.2025 10:40 — 👍 1900    🔁 403    💬 81    📌 22
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Postdoc position “Visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences” Exciting opportunity for a postdoc interested in visual aesthetic preferences!

Come work as a postdoctoral researcher in our research group at KU Leuven in Belgium and help us unravel the visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

07.01.2025 16:59 — 👍 13    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 1
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Why do we prefer curves over straight edges?

Prof. Oshin Vartanian, PhD student Delaram Farzanfar & Prof. @dirkbwalther.bsky.social use brain imaging data & computational measures of curvature to unravel one of the most robust findings in empirical aesthetics www.psych.utoronto.ca/news/why-do-...

08.01.2025 19:57 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The New Romantics Artists, thinkers, designers, and scientists are converging on the value of art, aesthetics and nature, parallelling earlier Romantics’ response to science and tech gone awry.

The New Romantics. As folks reflect on the year and their best of lists, this @psychologytoday.com blog was my favorite piece of what I wrote. #sciart
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

22.12.2024 14:18 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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How a tiny animal helps us improve brain simulations with AI Can we build neural networks whose structure and computational abilities match a real brain? We are not quite there yet, but our new paper shows a strategy for getting closer to this goal.

Can we build neural networks whose structure and computational abilities match a real brain? We are not quite there yet, but recent work by @lappalainenjk.bsky.social et al. shows a strategy for getting closer to this goal. Read more on our blog: www.machinelearningforscience.de/en/improving...

20.12.2024 11:32 — 👍 26    🔁 11    💬 1    📌 2

Hello Bluesky! This is the Kaiser Lab.

We are cognitive neuroscientists studying the neural computations that support real-world vision using fMRI, EEG, and TMS. Our main research areas include individual differences, categorization, and aesthetics.

For more information: danielkaiser.net

16.12.2024 12:18 — 👍 45    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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Marcos Nadal and I are pleased to announce that our new paper, "The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience", is now out in Nature Reviews Psychology.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

28.11.2024 14:15 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics! A small start, but I’m sure it will grow. I will add more folks as I find them. Ping me with your additions. #neuroaesthetics #empiricalaesthetics

go.bsky.app/HKuJYiw

15.11.2024 17:46 — 👍 40    🔁 11    💬 9    📌 0

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