The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

Empirical aesthetics has mainly focused on general and simple relations between stimulus
features and aesthetic appreciation. Consequently, to explain why people differ so much in …

Abstract The Bayesian Brain Hypothesis, as formalized by the Free Energy Principal, is
ascendant in the cognitive sciences. But how does the Bayesian Brain obtain prior beliefs …

The investigation of aesthetics has primarily been conducted within the visual domain. This
is not a surprise, as aesthetics has largely been associated with the perception and …

Listening to music is a widespread activity. Openness to experience in particular has been
found to be one of the dimensions of personality that most consistently predicts music …

Definition Music is a universal feature of human societies, which suggests that an
evolutionary perspective should help us understand our appreciation. The reward (pleasure) …

Abstract Thinking Through Other Minds (TTOM) creatively situates the free energy principle
within real-life cultural processes, thereby enriching both sociocultural theories and …

Emerging cybertechnologies, such as social digibots, bend epistemological conventions of
life and culture already complicated by human and animal relationships. Virtually …

Ming-style furniture patterns hold significant cultural importance within traditional Chinese
heritage. Despite being frequently integrated into modern Chinese product design, a …

The systematic study of stimulus properties and their role in aesthetic responses can be
traced back to the birth of empirical aesthetics, namely to Gustav Theodor Fechner's (1876) …