This paper has a rather audacious purpose: to present a comprehensive theory explaining,
and further providing hypotheses for the empirical study of, the multiple ways by which …

The sound of music may arouse profound emotions in listeners. But such experiences seem
to involve a 'paradox', namely that music–an abstract form of art, which appears removed …

What does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off
from our imagining of it? It was not always thus, and in these essays, Tim Ingold sets out to …

Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Neuroaesthetics is an emerging discipline within cognitive neuroscience that is concerned
with understanding the biological bases of aesthetic experiences. These experiences …

In this article, we develop an account of how aesthetic preferences can be formed as a result
of two hierarchical, fluency-based processes. Our model suggests that processing …

The last decade has witnessed a renaissance of empirical and psychological approaches to
art study, especially regarding cognitive models of art processing experience. This new …

Perceptions of authenticity (or, inauthenticity) have been shown to affect people's judgments
and behavior across a wide variety of domains. However, there is still ambiguity about how …

Digital 3D modelling and visualization technologies have been widely applied to support
research in the humanities since the 1980s. Since technological backgrounds, project …

In artwork appreciation activities, visiting physical exhibitions in art museums is often limited
by time, distance and cost. Thus, conventional teaching is mostly conducted through …