Aesthetics has been the subject of long-standing debates by philosophers and
psychologists alike. In psychology, it is generally agreed that aesthetic experience results …

Fully updated, the second edition of Neuropsychology of Art offers a fascinating exploration
of the brain regions and neuronal systems which support artistic creativity, talent and …

Affective pictures are widely used in studies of human emotions. The objects or scenes
shown in affective pictures play a pivotal role in eliciting particular emotions. However …

For centuries, oil paintings have been a major segment of the visual arts. The JenAesthetics
data set consists of a large number of high-quality images of oil paintings of Western …

Although the concept of image quality has been a subject of study for the image processing
community for more than forty years (where, with the term “quality”, we are referring to the …

Visual perception can be systematically biased towards the recent past. Many stimulus
attributes—including orientation, numerosity, facial expression and attractiveness, and …

Orientation processing in visual cortex appears matched to the environment, such that larger
neural populations are tuned to cardinal (horizontal/vertical) than oblique orientations. This …

When viewing a portrait, we are often captured by its expressivity, even if the emotion
depicted is not immediately identifiable. If the neural mechanisms underlying emotion …

Natural scene luminance distributions typically have positive skew, and for single objects,
there is evidence that higher skew is a correlate (but not a guarantee) of glossiness …

The history of Western visual art is traditionally divided into a succession of stylistic
movements on the basis of the art-historical provenance and visual qualities of artworks …