The Impact of Visual Stimuli and Properties on Restorative Effect and Human Stress: A Literature Review

A Sedghikhanshir, Y Zhu, MR Beck, A Jafari - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Restorative environments are known as places where human stress can be decreased
through restoration of depleted psychological resources. Since the efficiency of natural …

Angry and happy expressions affect forward gait initiation only when task relevant.

G Mirabella, M Grassi, S Mezzarobba, P Bernardis - Emotion, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Whole-body movements represent an ecologically valid model for assessing the effect of
emotional stimuli valence on approach/avoidance reactions as they entail a change of the …

Perfect social media image posts: Symmetry and contrast influence consumer response

A Kostyk, BA Huhmann - European Journal of Marketing, 2021 - emerald.com
Perfect social media image posts: symmetry and contrast influence consumer response |
Emerald Insight Books and journals Case studies Expert Briefings Open Access Publish with …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical image properties predict aesthetic ratings in abstract paintings created by neural style transfer

HA Geller, R Bartho, K Thömmes… - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful computational tool to create artworks. One
application is Neural Style Transfer, which allows to transfer the style of one image, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Implicit associations with nature and urban environments: Effects of lower-level processed image properties

C Menzel, G Reese - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Nature experiences usually lead to restorative effects, such as positive affective states and
reduced stress. Even watching nature compared to urban images, which are known to differ …

Are low-level visual features of scenes associated with perceived restorative qualities?

E Celikors, NM Wells - Journal of Environmental Psychology, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure to the natural environment has been associated with cognitive benefits. Attention
Restoration Theory (ART) proposes that the physical environment, including the natural …

Representation Gap in Standardized Affective Stimuli Sets: A Systematic Literature Review of Visual Sexual Stimuli

S Prantner, C Giménez-García, A Espino-Payá… - Sexuality & Culture, 2024 - Springer
Visual sexual stimuli (VSS) are often used to induce affective responses in experimental
research, but can also be useful in the assessment and treatment of sexual disorders (eg …

Validation of the open biological negative image set for a Portuguese population: Comparing Japanese and Portuguese samples and an exploration of low-order …

N Gomes, MF Benrós, GR Semin - Behavior Research Methods, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Recently, Shirai and Watanabe Royal Society Open Science, 9 (1), 211128
developed OBNIS (Open Biological Negative Image Set), a comprehensive database …

CalD3r and MenD3s: Spontaneous 3D facial expression databases

L Ulrich, F Marcolin, E Vezzetti, F Nonis… - Journal of Visual …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the last couple of decades, the research on 3D facial expression recognition has been
fostered by the creation of tailored databases containing prototypical expressions of different …

Investigation of relationships between discrete and dimensional emotion models in affective picture databases using unsupervised machine learning

M Horvat, A Jović, K Burnik - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Featured Application We have shown that affective ratings in picture stimuli are
correlated:(1) there is a statistically significant correlation between specific pairs of discrete …