Recently, we demonstrated complexity as a major factor for explaining individual differences
in visual preferences for abstract digital art. We have shown that participants could best be …

Neuroaesthetic research suggests that aesthetic appreciation results from the interaction
between the object perceptual features and the perceiver's sensory processing dynamics. In …

Communication signals often comprise an array of colours, lines, spots, notes or odours that
are arranged in complex patterns, melodies or blends. Receiver perception is assumed to …

Nature experiences usually lead to restorative effects, such as positive affective states and
reduced stress. Even watching nature compared to urban images, which are known to differ …

Humans are continually exposed to the rich visual complexity generated by the repetition of
fractal patterns at different size scales. Fractals are prevalent in natural scenery and in …

The origins of preferences that drive the evolution of arbitrary sexual signals have been hotly
debated for more than 150 years. An emerging but little-tested theory, efficient coding theory …

Fractal geometry has been used to describe natural and built environments, but has yet to
be studied in navigational research. In order to establish a relationship between the fractal …

A large number of studies support the notion that synthetic images within a certain
intermediate fractal-scaling range possess an intrinsic esthetic value. Interestingly, the …

A well-known tradition in the study of visual aesthetics holds that the experience of visual
beauty is grounded in global computational or statistical properties of the stimulus, for …

We revisit the long-standing question of the relation between image appreciation and its
statistical properties. We generate two different sets of random images well distributed along …