How to account for the power that art holds over us? Why do artworks touch us deeply,
consoling, transforming or invigorating us in the process? In this paper, we argue that an …

I consider predictive processing (PP) from the perspective of an artist who also conducts
scientific research into art and perception. This paper presents artworks I have made and …

Incomprehension of and resistance to contemporaneous art have been constant features in
the development of modern art. The predictive coding framework can be used to analyse this …

Aesthetic experiences have the potential to promote learning and creativity by enhancing
the ability to understand complexity and to integrate novel or disparate information. Offering …

In the last few years, a remarkable convergence of interests and results has emerged
between scholars interested in the arts and aesthetics from a variety of perspectives and …

This paper examines the relationship between societal structures shaped by traditions,
norms, laws, and customs, and creative expressions in arts and media through the lens of …

Poetic diction routinely involves two complementary classes of features:(i) parallelisms, ie
repetitive patterns (rhyme, metre, alliteration, etc.) that enhance the predictability of …

The performance art of magic allows us to experience the impossible, and this study used a
balancing magic trick to investigate the relationship between participants' enjoyment and …