International Association for Empirical Aesthetics

Excited to share a call for articles for a special issue of Education Sciences on #aesthetics #creativity and #emotionalintelligence @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social
that I am co-editing w/ John Pellitteri and Jessica Hoffmann
@iaea-aesthetics.bsky.social
More: www.mdpi.com/journal/educ...

Osher Fellows Osher Fellows bring their world-renowned creative expertise to the Academy's science learning programs.

I've been selected as a 2026 Osher Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences (@calacademy.bsky.social), for a project with Indre Viskontas (@indrevis.bsky.social) and Cal Academy. Thanks so much to Rhonda Rubenstein and for facilitating this opportunity!

www.calacademy.org/osher-fellows

Designing for the Mind Does nature, or nature-inspired interior design, help restore fatigued attention, ameliorate stress, and make us more creative?

A report on our recent study on nature and biophilic design. Designing for the Mind | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

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!

Becoming singular: Musical identity construction and maintenance through the lens of identity process theory - Melissa Forbes, Jason Goopy, Amanda E Krause, 2025 This study uses identity process theory to understand the social–psychological processes that motivate individuals to construct an identity in which music, sing...

Nice to see this article out in issue! #MusicScience
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cc: @jasongoopy.bsky.social @melissaforbes.bsky.social

I did a #PubChat thread over on the other site, so repeating it here:

people prefer to view real-world large objects as larger than real-world small objects, even with visual anagrams.

Next, aesthetic preferences. People think real-world large objects look better when displayed large, and vice versa for small objects. Our experiments show that this is true with anagrams too!

@ibdinvestors.bsky.social reminding us that creativity is much than good or even brilliant ideas. We need to move on it and that is hard

#TheCreativityChoice #creativity #Innovation #IDEAS
www.investors.com/news/managem...

Looking forward to #ECVP2025 Demo Night om Aug 26th! Come challenge yourself to create the most complex OCTA stimulus and check its numeric complexity with the QIP machine of the Aesthetics Toolbox!

💥 Call for Contributions 💥

We are seeking contributions for our symposium at Durham University, 18–19 May 2026.

Deadline: 4 Nov 2025.

Full details below 👇

musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...

ART-UP: Making the case for visual thinking strategies in art therapy pedagogy, practice, and research Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) is an art-education technique commonly used to enhance observation and critical thinking skills. Since the use of vis…

Work with receptive art engagement, museums, or teach students in close looking? Here's our framework of how seamlessly Visual Thinning Strategies can be integrated in art therapy. Interested to know more?Attend our panel at AATA's virtual art therapy conference www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zsofia Pilz discusses her study of how information in labels influences visitors’ viewing patterns and experiences of artworks the Rijksmuseum.

#VSAC2025

Also on Friday, Elisabeth Van der Hulst is part of the symposium "Temporal dynamics of cognitive processes underlying aesthetic experience" organized by @bvb373.bsky.social and @hongbnguyen.bsky.social with her talk: "In pursuit of movement: Choreographic complexity and viewing behavior in dance"⬇️

Thank you to our speakers and attendees for a fantastic first day!

#vsac2025

Johan Wagemans gives the Visual Science of Art Conference a taste of the latest results from his lab’s impressive Gestalts Relate Aesthetic Preferences to Perceptual Analysis (GRAPPA) project.

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@gestaltrevision.bsky.social

Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social speaking about perceptual animacy and predictive processing at the Visual Science of Art Conference.

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Ronald Hübner on Gustav Fechner’s origins:

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Anna Miscenà discussing the use of connoisseurs to determine the provenance of a painting.

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Dirk Walther presenting his lab’s work demonstrating an inverse relationship between the metabolic cost of visual processing and aesthetic judgments.

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Day 2 of the conference was a true celebration of science and art—thank you to all the scientists and artists for the inspiring talks and beautiful installations. Your work made the day unforgettable! #VSAC2025

Branke Spehar discussing individual differences in how image features drive aesthetic preferences.

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Maya Theresia Laughton presenting a beautiful film weaving together ideas from science and Hindu spirituality, called ‘Noumenon’. She made the film in collaboration with Janna Kyllästinen, as part of the Science New Wave Festival.

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Maarten Leemans using image aesthetic mapping to explore the impact of details on the visual inspection of art photographs and paintings.

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Come find me at my #ECVP2025 poster to chat about image fidelity in the #WikiArt image dataset!

Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery

The first study from my PhD project is now available! 🎉

"Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery"

Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social.

Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Laurel–Yanny percept affects the speech-to-song illusion, but musical anhedonia does not

New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience

Huge thanks to the #VSAC2025 organizers for such an incredible conference! Special thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster "From preliminary findings to a large-scale diary study: Investigating aesthetic experience in everyday life" - loved the insightful discussions and exchanges! 🤓💡

Kaiser Lab is at ECVP this year! Come check out our studies 😎

Great first poster session at @ecvp.bsky.social! In case you missed me or want to chat more about #ImageFidelity and #Aesthetics or #QuantitativeImageProperties, please come find me during the breaks! #ECVP2025

Ready-made bodily sensations - Scientific Reports Embodiment plays an important role in art engagement, yet it is unclear how expectations shape bodily sensations, especially when interacting with ready-made art. In this study, we investigated how ex...

✨ Does our body resonate differently when an everyday object is reframed by an artist as ready-made art?
Full story & #OpenScience #Rcode are available in our latest publication Ruta, Schino, Wolfe & Iosifyan (2025) Scientific Reports ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Home - International Association of Empirical Aesthetics % We are an organization of researchers who use scientific methods to investigate aesthetic experience and aesthetic behavior.

In case you missed it, be sure to check out IAEA's newly redesigned website! You can learn about the society, become a member, learn about affiliated labs, and get info about our 2026 congress!

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