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 …

Previous research on aesthetic preferences demonstrates that people are more likely to
judge a stimulus as pleasing if it is familiar. Although general familiarity and liking are …

A dominant theory of embodied aesthetic experience (Freedberg & Gallese, 2007, Trends in
Cognitive Sciences, 11, 197) posits that the appreciation of visual art is linked to the artist's …

Empirical aesthetics has found its way into mainstream cognitive science. Until now, most
research has focused either on identifying the internal processes that underlie a perceiver's …

Past research demonstrates that we are more likely to positively evaluate a stimulus if we
have had previous experience with that stimulus. This has been shown for judgment of …

Previous neuroimaging studies have shown that body aesthetic appreciation involves the
activation of both visual and motor areas, supporting a role of sensorimotor embodiment in …

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

Several studies have shown the distinct contribution of motion and form to the esthetic
evaluation of female bodies. Here, we investigated how variations of implied motion and …

This study tests the contributions of structural and transformational information in the
perception of technical execution and aesthetic quality in gymnastics judging. A focal …

Aesthetic theories have long suggested perceptual advantages for prototypical exemplars of
a given class of objects or events. Empirical evidence confirmed that morphed (quantitatively …