PhD candidate in neuroaesthetics.
Interested in aesthetics and visual perception.
Uni of tübingen and @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
Mustafa Alperen Ekinci
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What makes an artwork beautiful, and can your brain's response decode such hidden dimensions of aesthetic appeal? We built a framework to find out 🎨 🧠
@natcomms.nature.com @cognizelab.bsky.social
First author: @neocosmliang.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroaesthetics #DefaultMode
🚨 Very happy to share our *Neuron* paper: Rethinking neuroaesthetics authors.elsevier.com/a/1miuj3BtfH...
With @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social & Johan Wagemans, we argue that neuroaesthetics should move beyond a focus on beauty alone and embrace the multidimensional nature of aesthetic experience.
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This suggests that how we visually explore the world contributes to individual differences in aesthetic experience.
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We compared similarities in gaze patterns with similarities in aesthetic ratings.
Key results: Greater similarity in gaze patterns was associated with greater similarity in aesthetic ratings. Moreover, gaze during free viewing without any rating task predicted later aesthetic judgments.
New preprint!
Why do people disagree about what looks beautiful, even when viewing the same stimulus?
We show that shared aesthetic experience is linked to shared gaze during naturalistic viewing: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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In two eye tracking experiments, participants watched the documentary movie "Home" while we recorded eye movements. We also collected moment to moment aesthetic ratings throughout the whole movie in experiment 1, and only during the second half in experiment 2.
📢 Workshop announcement.
We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser.
📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany
🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026.
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📣 New Paper Alert!
My PhD student Hannah Ovadia and I wrote a concise update on “The Role of the Default Mode Network (DMN) in Aesthetic Appeal” to synthesize evidence, highlight issues, and most importantly, consider theoretical alternatives.
Free access:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1lz-h8MqMi...
Welcome to the IAEA Aesthetics Conference 2026 in Jena!
We are delighted to announce that the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) will hold its next international conference in Jena, Germany, from 5th to 8th May.
Discover more at iaea-jena2026.org (link in bio)
I finally have some new work to share - some thoughts on how we perceive style with a sprinkle of aesthetics, Fechner, and most importantly: labradors 🐕
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
