Description
In recent years, approaches from cognitive (neuro)science, experimental psychology, and artificial intelligence, have increasingly advanced and impacted the scientific understanding of aesthetic, perceptual, and emotional experiences. In this session, these approaches are being showcased in various settings, from traditional areas of art aesthetics, to broader domains of tourism and leisure activities. The purpose is to showcase these approaches to audiences of WLC, and highlight its relevance for the study of aesthetic experiences. Dr. Gijs Holleman (Tilburg University) investigates how attention and emotion are associated with aesthetic experiences during art perception. Gijs uses wearable eye tracking and skin conductance sensors to study how people engage visually and emotionally with art created by students of the Utrecht School for the Arts (HKU). Dr. Alwin de Rooij (Avans University of Applied Sciences and Tilburg University) investigates why audiences appear to be biased against artificial intelligence use in visual art. Alwin presents a recent meta-analysis on the topic and discusses the impact of 'invisible' and 'machine' authorship in visual art experience. Dr. Wim Strijbosch (Breda University of Applied Sciences) investigated environmental aesthetics of theme parks. Wim presents an electroencephalographic (EEG) study of differences in aesthetic responses to pictures of theme park contexts versus real-world contexts, both for natural and built environments. Dr. Noah van Dongen (University of Amsterdam) investigates how differences in commercial and professional art using electroencephalography (EEG). In this study, event-related potentials of the EEG were investigated in response to mass production paintings versus paintings from the collections of museums.| Period | 28 Aug 2025 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | Breda, NetherlandsShow on map |