A cautionary note for those seeking a shortcut to publication--from a very authoritative source.🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
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Why do we like what we see? We argue that visual liking is a context- and goal-sensitive process of sensory valuation: the brain assigns hedonic value to what we see by integrating visual features with meaning, expectations, bodily state, task demands, and reward. doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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The most interesting part here is not that bees 'have inner lives' but that their behaviour is contextually dependent. It's important to remember that facial information flexibly tracks both inner & outer interactions in ways we still can't describe in humans, let alone bees
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · last mo.Do bees have inner lives? Slow-motion video reveals bumblebee behaviour similar to ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’
Humans and other animals, including other primates, birds, fish, and insects, share flexible preferences for curvature, visual structure, biological motion, and color. They help orient behavior toward relevant aspects of the world: food sources, social partners, and places. doi.org/10.1016/J.CO...
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When judging artworks' visual complexity, people don’t rely only on their visual features. They also consider valence: negative valence increases judged complexity, while positive valence reduces it. Information about the artworks attenuates this affective influence. doi.org/10.1111/bjop.70037
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Visual complexity is a key factor in perceptual and evaluative judgments. People's representation of visual complexity is constructed from quantitative and structural image features, but it is also i...
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When cherished beliefs and intuitions turn out to not be confirmed. Not a lot of difference in the impact of art seen in museums versus on a screen in the lab. Reasons to actually test intuitions. With @kohinoordarda.bsky.social and others. 🧪 #sciart www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A comparison of art engagement in museums and through digital media - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - A comparison of art engagement in museums and through digital media
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After a lot of work, I'm overjoyed to share that our lab is complete with the last additions: Victor & Ford Transit 🎉
Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
For those with the luxury of time (and interest) this is a lovely 1 hour conversation I had about the evolution of neuroaesthetics and where we in my center @pcfn.bsky.social are in our thinking. www.buzzsprout.com/2282727/epis...
From Brain to Home: How our Built Environment Impacts Who We Are with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Part 1 - On the Table with Ashley
Neuroaesthetics is on the table today.In our inaugural episode on Neuroaesthetics and Design, we are joined by neuroscientist and author Dr. Anjan Chatterjee. Dr. Chatterjee earned his B.A. in Philoso...
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My conversation about beautiful conversation with Daniel Stillman just released. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
Your Brain on Beautiful Conversations with Anjan Chatterjee
Podcast Episode · The Conversation Factory · 02/25/2025 · 51m
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In a @currentbiology.bsky.social paper earlier this year, led by @laurawesseldijk.bsky.social, we analysed Beethoven’s genome with a polygenic index related to musicality, as a way to communicate limits of genetic predictions at the individual level & the complexity of links between DNA & behaviour:
Notes from Beethoven’s genome
Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.
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Aesthetic experience reconsidered: The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience. doi.org/10.1038/s441... #Neuroaesthetics #EmpiricalAesthetics #AestheticExperience @natrevpsych.bsky.social
The sensory valuation account of aesthetic experience - Nature Reviews Psychology
Aesthetic experience has traditionally been considered a unique kind of experience that occurs when people view specific objects such as artwork. In this Perspective, Nadal and Skov posit an account o...
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