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

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 …

Do you wonder how movies–sequences of static frames–appear to move, or why 3-D films
look different from traditional movies? Why does ventriloquism work, and why can airliner …

The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and
Africa struggling to define freedom and'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley …

The evolution of aesthetics has become an increasingly popular topic over the last few
years, both for evolutionary biologists and for scholars from other disciplines who want to …

This study investigated the effect of layout order on the complexity of the dashboard interface
based on screen-based eye trackers. By simplifying and abstracting dashboard interfaces …

The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves, embellish
our things and surroundings, and produce art, music, song dance, and fiction. Humans are …

While aesthetic experiences are not limited to any particular context, their sensorial,
cognitive and behavioral properties can be profoundly affected by the circumstances in …

In the field of visual graphic design, complexity plays a crucial role in visual information
processing, and it is assumed to be an absolute quantity based on the number of the …

Despite the philosophical literature concerning the sublime and the beautiful, dating back to
Burke (1759/2008), there is still limited empirical evidence regarding the visual aesthetics of …