Which stimulus and person characteristics determine aesthetic appreciation? For many
centuries, philosophers and scientists have been trying to solve this complex puzzle …

Since at least 1935, vision researchers have used art stimuli to test human response to
complex scenes. This is sensible given the “inherent interestingness” of art and its relation to …

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In this work, I propose a model of visual aesthetic experience that combines formalist and
contextual aspects of aesthetics. The model distinguishes between two modes of …

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

Previous research in computational aesthetics has led to the identification of multiple image
features that, in combination, can be related to the aesthetic quality of images, such as …

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 …

Most visual advertisements are designed to attract attention, often by inducing a pleasant
impression in human observers. Accordingly, results from brain imaging studies show that …

In this study, we combined the behavioral and objective approach in the field of empirical
aesthetics. First, we studied the perception of beauty by investigating shifts in evaluation on …

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 …