Evaluative judgment—ie, assessing to what degree a stimulus is liked or disliked—is a
fundamental aspect of cognition, facilitating comparison and choosing among alternatives …

Sensory valuation is a fundamental aspect of cognition. It involves assigning hedonic value
to a stimulus based on its sensory information considering personal and contextual factors …

Although empirical research on aesthetics has had some success in explaining the average
preferences of groups of observers, relatively little is known about individual differences in …

We investigate neural and behavioral aspects of the interrelation between 'liking'and
'understanding'when both appraisals are made within one judgment task. Our goal was to …

Aesthetic judgments were investigated using a combined nomothetic and idiographic
approach. Participants judged novel graphic patterns with respect to their own personal …

An age-old dream of researchers in empirical aesthetics has been to find the aesthetic
formula. Although the aesthetic formula has never been found, it seems that people find …

Individuals can be aesthetically engaged by a diverse array of visual experiences (paintings,
mountain vistas, etc.), yet the processes that support this fundamental mode of interaction …

When I eat an ice cream or listen to David Bowie's song “Heroes” I feel, as part of both
experiences, a pleasurable response. To express this feeling, I might say I like these two …

Using both group-and individual-level analyses, we explored the complex and dynamic
effects of basic visual features on aesthetic judgment. Specifically, the mediating influence of …

We report an experiment investigating how stimulus complexity and conceptual fluency (ie,
the ease of deriving meaning) influence aesthetic liking judgments for abstract artworks. We …