Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

The music style classification technology can add style tags to music based on the content.
When it comes to researching and implementing aspects like efficient organization …

The rate of adoption of new information depends on reinforcement from multiple sources in a
way that often cannot be described by simple contagion processes. In such cases, contagion …

We investigate the dynamics of music creation style distributions to understand cultural
evolution involving intelligence to create complex artefacts. Previous work suggested that a …

We use the example of art-derived solace to discuss a broader mechanism by which
negative affect is instrumental in creating positive appreciation of artworks. Based on the …

One of the fundamental questions of cultural evolutionary research is how individual-level
processes scale up to generate population-level patterns. Previous studies in music have …

Phylogenetic trees or networks representing cultural evolution are typically built using
methods from biology that use similarities and differences in cultural traits to infer the …

Recent advances in cultural analytics and large-scale computational studies of art, literature
and film often show that long-term change in the features of artistic works happens …

In contemporary popular music, covering or adapting previous songs signals a tribute or
reworking of popular hits, which implies acknowledgement of the original musicians. This …

What are the best methods of capturing thematic similarity between literary texts? Knowing
the answer to this question would be useful for automatic clustering of book genres, or any …