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A comparison of art engagement in museums and through digital media - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - A comparison of art engagement in museums and through digital media

When cherished beliefs and intuitions turn out to not be confirmed. Not a lot of difference in the impact of art seen in museums versus on a screen in the lab. Reasons to actually test intuitions. With @kohinoordarda.bsky.social and others. 🧪 #sciart www.nature.com/articles/s41...

After a lot of work, I'm overjoyed to share that our lab is complete with the last additions: Victor & Ford Transit 🎉

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...

Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense.
🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

From Brain to Home: How our Built Environment Impacts Who We Are with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Part 1 - On the Table with Ashley Neuroaesthetics is on the table today.In our inaugural episode on Neuroaesthetics and Design, we are joined by neuroscientist and author Dr. Anjan Chatterjee. Dr. Chatterjee earned his B.A. in Philoso...

For those with the luxury of time (and interest) this is a lovely 1 hour conversation I had about the evolution of neuroaesthetics and where we in my center @pcfn.bsky.social are in our thinking. www.buzzsprout.com/2282727/epis...

Your Brain on Beautiful Conversations with Anjan Chatterjee Podcast Episode · The Conversation Factory · 02/25/2025 · 51m

My conversation about beautiful conversation with Daniel Stillman just released. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

Notes from Beethoven’s genome Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

In a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:

Seen through this lens, aesthetic experiences are not essentially different from other kinds of experience, disinterested, or involve a unique sort of pleasure. They are rooted in basic reward processes shared with other animals, have motivational and biological roles, and deep evolutionary origins

We abandon the assumption-burdened concept of aesthetic experience in favor of sensory valuation, reframing aesthetic experience as an outcome of domain-general processes in the reward system. These processes integrate sensory information, expectations, experience, context, and physiological states

@mskov01.bsky.social and I challenge traditional ideas about aesthetic experience—rooted in 18th-century philosophy rather than empirical evidence--that view aesthetic experience as uniquely human, disinterested, and lacking utilitarian or motivational functions. We propose a radical shift

The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience - Nature Reviews Psychology Aesthetic experience has traditionally been considered a unique kind of experience that occurs when people view specific objects such as artwork. In this Perspective, Nadal and Skov posit an account o...

Aesthetic experience reconsidered: The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience. doi.org/10.1038/s441... #Neuroaesthetics #EmpiricalAesthetics #AestheticExperience @natrevpsych.bsky.social