When people feel curious, they often seek information to resolve their curiosity. Reaching
resolution, however, does not always occur in a single step but instead may follow the …

People invest precious time and resources on experiences such as watching movies or
listening to music. Yet, we still have a poor understanding of how such sensed experiences …

In this chapter, we describe how the individual's active involvement with works of art
contributes to the experience of them. Based on a review of recent experimental work, we …

Drawing from field theory, Gestalt therapy conceives psychological suffering and
psychotherapy as two intentional field phenomena, where unprocessed and chaotic …

As one of the earliest domains of aesthetics to be studied systematically, there is a sizeable
body of work on the behavioural basis and neural correlates of visual aesthetic appeal …

This article addresses the question of whether machine understanding requires
consciousness. Some researchers in the field of machine understanding have argued that it …

What determines the aesthetic appeal of artworks? Recent work suggests that aesthetic
appeal can, to some extent, be predicted from a visual artwork's image features. Yet a large …

Music offers a useful opportunity to consider the factors contributing to the experience of
curiosity in the context of dynamically changing stimuli. Here, we tested the hypothesis that …

Guessing an answer to an unfamiliar question prior to seeing the answer leads to better
memory than studying alone (the pre-testing effect), which some theories attribute to …