Excited to share a call for articles for a special issue of Education Sciences on #aesthetics #creativity and #emotionalintelligence @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social that I am co-editing w/ John Pellitteri and Jessica Hoffmann @iaea-aesthetics.bsky.social More: www.mdpi.com/journal/educ...

I've been selected as a 2026 Osher Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences (@calacademy.bsky.social), for a project with Indre Viskontas (@indrevis.bsky.social) and Cal Academy. Thanks so much to Rhonda Rubenstein and for facilitating this opportunity! www.calacademy.org/osher-fellows

A report on our recent study on nature and biophilic design. Designing for the Mind | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Hi Bluesky! 🦋 We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL). ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨ Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!

Nice to see this article out in issue! #MusicScience journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... cc: @jasongoopy.bsky.social @melissaforbes.bsky.social I did a #PubChat thread over on the other site, so repeating it here:

Next, aesthetic preferences. People think real-world large objects look better when displayed large, and vice versa for small objects. Our experiments show that this is true with anagrams too!

@ibdinvestors.bsky.social reminding us that creativity is much than good or even brilliant ideas. We need to move on it and that is hard #TheCreativityChoice #creativity #Innovation #IDEAS www.investors.com/news/managem...

Looking forward to #ECVP2025 Demo Night om Aug 26th! Come challenge yourself to create the most complex OCTA stimulus and check its numeric complexity with the QIP machine of the Aesthetics Toolbox!

💥 Call for Contributions 💥 We are seeking contributions for our symposium at Durham University, 18–19 May 2026. Deadline: 4 Nov 2025. Full details below 👇 musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...

Work with receptive art engagement, museums, or teach students in close looking? Here's our framework of how seamlessly Visual Thinning Strategies can be integrated in art therapy. Interested to know more?Attend our panel at AATA's virtual art therapy conference www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Zsofia Pilz discusses her study of how information in labels influences visitors’ viewing patterns and experiences of artworks the Rijksmuseum. #VSAC2025

Also on Friday, Elisabeth Van der Hulst is part of the symposium "Temporal dynamics of cognitive processes underlying aesthetic experience" organized by @bvb373.bsky.social and @hongbnguyen.bsky.social with her talk: "In pursuit of movement: Choreographic complexity and viewing behavior in dance"⬇️

Thank you to our speakers and attendees for a fantastic first day! #vsac2025

Johan Wagemans gives the Visual Science of Art Conference a taste of the latest results from his lab’s impressive Gestalts Relate Aesthetic Preferences to Perceptual Analysis (GRAPPA) project. #VSAC2025 @gestaltrevision.bsky.social

Hong Nguyen @hongbnguyen.bsky.social speaking about perceptual animacy and predictive processing at the Visual Science of Art Conference. #VSAC2025

Ronald Hübner on Gustav Fechner’s origins: #VSAC2025

Anna Miscenà discussing the use of connoisseurs to determine the provenance of a painting. #VSAC2025

Dirk Walther presenting his lab’s work demonstrating an inverse relationship between the metabolic cost of visual processing and aesthetic judgments. #VSAC2025

Day 2 of the conference was a true celebration of science and art—thank you to all the scientists and artists for the inspiring talks and beautiful installations. Your work made the day unforgettable! #VSAC2025

Branke Spehar discussing individual differences in how image features drive aesthetic preferences. #VSAC2025

Maya Theresia Laughton presenting a beautiful film weaving together ideas from science and Hindu spirituality, called ‘Noumenon’. She made the film in collaboration with Janna Kyllästinen, as part of the Science New Wave Festival. #VSAC2025

Maarten Leemans using image aesthetic mapping to explore the impact of details on the visual inspection of art photographs and paintings. #VSAC2025

Come find me at my #ECVP2025 poster to chat about image fidelity in the #WikiArt image dataset!

The first study from my PhD project is now available! 🎉 "Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery" Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper 🚨! Our class project on Illusions of the Mind: Laurel vs. Yanny and Sometimes Behave So Strangely #speech2songillusion now out www.nature.com/articles/s41... with 3 undergrad, 2 postgrad, & 1 postdoc, & 3 PI authors #musicscience

Huge thanks to the #VSAC2025 organizers for such an incredible conference! Special thanks to everyone who stopped by my poster "From preliminary findings to a large-scale diary study: Investigating aesthetic experience in everyday life" - loved the insightful discussions and exchanges! 🤓💡

Kaiser Lab is at ECVP this year! Come check out our studies 😎

Great first poster session at @ecvp.bsky.social! In case you missed me or want to chat more about #ImageFidelity and #Aesthetics or #QuantitativeImageProperties, please come find me during the breaks! #ECVP2025

✨ Does our body resonate differently when an everyday object is reframed by an artist as ready-made art? Full story & #OpenScience #Rcode are available in our latest publication Ruta, Schino, Wolfe & Iosifyan (2025) Scientific Reports ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In case you missed it, be sure to check out IAEA's newly redesigned website! You can learn about the society, become a member, learn about affiliated labs, and get info about our 2026 congress! iaea-aesthetics.org

Interested in Arts & Health? Read my response to a recent critique of the field in Physics of Life Reviews. To Punch Down or to Build Up: Comment on "Can Arts-Based Interventions Improve Health? A Conceptual and Methodological Critique" by Skov & Nadal. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Interview: From anesthetic to party drug to potential antidepressant: ketamine is at the forefront of treatment-research in depression. @juliasophiacrone.bsky.social and Marie Spies discuss promises and pitfalls of using ketamine as an intervention for depression. In print: shorturl.at/WwXoc

What if animals find beauty in the world, just like we do? Brief article in Psyche: psyche.co/ideas/what-i...

I'm quoted in this article about a recent paper on "The Beholder's Share" in abstract art. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/....

@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a presentation on the content validity assessment for his music-emotion episode instrument! Out now as a preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #musicscience #psychometrics

Don't forget to book early for the #vsac2025 workshops! You can book them on the Website: 2025.vsac.eu/program#work... #visualscienceofartconference #visualscienceofart

Commentaries for Marcos Nadal's and my recent paper "Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique" have begun to roll in. To keep track of them I am starting this thread. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to share a new comment published today in physics of life sciences providing context for recent attempts to dismiss the emerging evidence for arts-based interventions 🤓🎨🎶 @evalabs.bsky.social @rsph.bsky.social @tcdpsychology.bsky.social #psychology www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@neocosmliang.bsky.social demonstrating a domain general neural signature that predicts perceived beauty of objects 🌹🥀 in collab with the amazing @martinhebart.bsky.social and @dkaiserlab.bsky.social #THINGS

Nothing better to get you in the mood for VSAC than reminiscing about your time at VSAC 2022 in #Amsterdam. Do not miss out on making memories at VSAC 2025 in Wiesbaden in August 21st - 23rd! #VSAC2025 #VisualScienceofArt

Massive congrats to @neocosmliang.bsky.social for receiving the #OHBM Merit Award for his work on “the domain general neural signature of perceived object beauty”🌹 #ECR @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @cognizelab.bsky.social

"Eureka! The brain science behind lightbulb moments" - Excellent coverage in Nature of research on the neuroscience of Aha moments, including our research on this phenomenon. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We want to know how people experience changes in creativity during adulthood! Fill out this 5 minutes questionnaire (English or German) and share widely 👩‍🎨🎭https://qualtricsxmyhjwlb898.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLhxX97h53xosO

@mskov01.bsky.social and @mnadal.bsky.social recently reviewed arts-based interventions: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I got the opportunity to write a comment: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... TLDR: ABIs hold some promise but must be tested with the same rigor as other treatments.

A fun conversation about The Creativity Choice on CT @npr.org #creativity #booksky #writingcommunity www.ctpublic.org/show/where-w...

The final paper from my PhD is finally out! Huge thank you to my supervisors @genevieve132.bsky.social and @nicolenelson.bsky.social for their support with this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@franzroman.bsky.social is looking for 2 Vienna-based summer interns to help with his study on the role of the dopamine system on cognitive flexibility and creativity. 🎨 See below for more info (in German) and get in touch with Franz directly! 👨‍🔬

How does the DMN contribute to creativity? Our review with Roger Beaty (@roger-beaty.bsky.social) and Emmanuelle Volle explores 4 novel trends in research.

We were thrilled to host Dr. Claire Howlin @dancingresearch.bsky.social in our lab last week! Her talk on music, pain, and wellbeing was truly inspiring. We are excited for future collaborations! 🎵🔬📊