Most previous neuroaesthetics research has been limited to considering the aesthetic
judgment of static stimuli, with few studies examining the aesthetic judgment of dynamic …

What happens to aesthetic preferences over time? Everyday experience suggests that our
preferences change over the course of our lives. Unfortunately, much of the existing …

Good product design can be a key factor in attracting consumers in today's world (eg, Apple,
Braun, IKEA), and it has been suggested that processing fluency is the key process …

Preference, Complexity, and Fractal Melodies 247 and unpredictable. Schroeder (1991)
used the correlation characteristics of 1/fß tone sequences to relate Birkhoff's (1933) theory …

Appreciating human movement can be a powerful aesthetic experience. We have used
apparent biological motion to investigate the aesthetic effects of three levels of movement …

The aesthetic values that individuals place on visual images are formed and shaped over a
lifetime. However, whether the formation of visual aesthetic value is solely influenced by …

While a work of art can evoke an aesthetic experience, the same can apply to a grand
ballroom or a sunset. Like fine art, everyday scenes contain aesthetic qualities, with some …

Increasing psychophysical evidence suggests that specific image features–or statistics–can
appear unpleasant or induce visual discomfort in humans. Such unpleasantness tends to be …

The study of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of aesthetic appreciation by means of
neuroimaging techniques has yielded a wealth of fascinating information. Although the …

Since its dawn in the early 2000s, neuroaesthetics has been flowering as an independent
research field (Nadal and Skov, 2013). Its emergence has mostly been driven by …