Publications

Preprints / Under Review

Vessel, E.A., Reymond, C., Etcoff, N. (under review). Formal training in a visual aesthetic domain increases shared taste in a domain-specific manner.

2024

Conwell, C., Graham, D., Boccagno, C. & Vessel, E. A. (accepted). The Perceptual Primacy of Feeling: Affectless visual machines explain a majority of variance in human visual visually-evoked affect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (PsyArXiv version doi: 10.31234/osf.io/5wg4s)

Christensen, J.F., Muralikrishnan, R., Münzberg, M., Castaño-Manías, B., Khorsandi, S., Vessel, E.A. (2024) Can 5 minutes of finger actions boost creative incubation? Journal of Cognitive Enhancement. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41465-024-00306-0

Bignardi, G., Smit, D.J., Vessel, E.A., Trupp, M.D., Ticini, L.F., Fisher, S.E., Polderman, T.J.C. (2024). Genetic effects on variability in visual aesthetic evaluations are partially shared across visual domains. Communications Biology 7(55). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05710-4

2023

Vessel, E.A., Pasqualette, L., Uran, C., Koldehoff, S., Vinck, M. (2023). Self-relevance predicts the aesthetic appeal of real and synthetic artworks generated via neural style transfer. Psychological Science, 34(9): 1007–1023. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976231188107

Trupp, M.D., Bignardi, G., Specker, E., Vessel, E.A., Pelowski, M. (2023). Who benefits from art viewing, and how: The role of pleasure, meaningfulness, and trait aesthetic responsiveness in computer-based art interventions for well-being. Computers in Human Behavior, 145: 107764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107764

2022

Golbabaei, S., Christensen, J.F., Vessel, E.A., Kazemian, N., Borhani, K. (2022). The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000532 [More Information and Downloads]

Vessel, E.A., Ishizu, T., Bignardi, G. (2022). Neural correlates of visual aesthetic appeal. In M. Skov & M. Nadal (Ed.). Routledge Intl Handbook of Neuroaesthetics. London: Routledge. Pp. 103-133. https://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003008675-7

Welke, D., Vessel, E.A. (2022). Examining the effects of free gaze and dynamic video stimuli on engagement, eye movements, and EEG signal quality in a visual aesthetic rating task. NeuroImage, 119218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119218

Strijbosch, W., Vessel, E.A., Welke, D., Mitas, O., Gelissen, J., Bastiaansen, M. (2022). On the neuronal dynamics of aesthetic experience: Evidence from electroencephalographic oscillatory dynamics. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(3). https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01812

Vessel, E.A., Starr, G.S. (2022). Imaging the subjective. In A. Chatterjee & E. Cardillo (Ed.). Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197513620.003.0024

Vessel, E.A., Yue, X., Biederman, I. (2022). Scene preferences, aesthetic appeal and curiosity: revisting the neurobiology of the infovore. In A. Chatterjee & E. Cardillo (Ed.). Brain, Beauty, and Art: Essays Bringing Neuroaesthetics into Focus. Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197513620.003.0013

2021

Isik, I., Vessel, E.A. (2021). From visual perception to aesthetic appeal: Brain responses to aesthetically appealing natural landscape movies. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15:676032. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.676032

Welke, D.W., Purton, I., Vessel, E.A. (2021). Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/aca0000393

2020

Vessel, E.A. (2020). Neuroaesthetics. In Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience, 2nd edition (pp. 661-670). Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-809324-5.24104-7

Schlotz, W., Wallot, S. Omigie, D., Masucci, M.D., Hoelzmann, S.C., Vessel, E.A. (2020). The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/aca0000348 [More Information and Downloads]

2019

Isik, A.I., Vessel, E.A. (2019). Continuous ratings of movie watching reveal idiosyncratic dynamics of aesthetic enjoyment. PLoS ONE 14 (10): e0223896. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223896

Vessel, E.A., Isik, A.I., Belfi, A.M., Stahl, J.L., Starr, G.G. (2019). The default-mode network represents aesthetic appeal that generalizes across visual domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sep 2019, 201902650, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902650116

Vessel, E.A.*, Belfi, A.M.*, Brielmann, A., Isik, A.I., Chatterjee, A., Leder, H., Pelli, D.G., Starr, G.G. (2019). Dynamics of aesthetic experience are reflected in the default-mode network. NeuroImage, 188, 584-597. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.017 (* shared first authorship)

2018

Belfi, A. M., Kasdan, A., Rowland, J., Vessel, E. A., Starr, G. G., & Poeppel, D. (2018). Rapid timing of musical aesthetic judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(10): 1531-1543. doi: 10.1037/xge0000474

Vessel, E.A., Maurer, N.M., Denker, A.H., Starr, G.G. (2018). Stronger shared taste for natural aesthetic domains than for artifacts of human culture. Cognition, 179, 121-131. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.06.009

Belfi, A. M., Vessel, E. A., & Starr, G. G. (2018). Individual ratings of vividness predict aesthetic appeal in poetry. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12(3), 341-350. doi: 10.1037/aca0000153

pre 2018

Vessel, E.A., Biederman, I., Subramaniam, S., Greene, M.R. (2016). Effective signaling of surface boundaries by L-vertices reflect the consistency of their contrast in natural images. Journal of Vision, 16(9): 15, 1-10, doi: 10.1167/16.9.15

Vessel, E.A., Russo S. (2015). Effects of reduced sensory stimulation and assessment of countermeasures for sensory stimulation augmentation: A Report for NASA Behavioral Health and Performance Research: Sensory Stimulation Augmentation Tools for Long Duration Spaceflight (NASA/TM-2015-218576). NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. https://osf.io/f6bs3/?view_only=d051040205734a67826a1756aa0990d3

Vessel, E.A., Stahl, J., Maurer, N., Denker, A., Starr. G.G. (2014). Personalized visual aesthetics. Proc. SPIE 9014, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIX, 90140S, 1-8. doi: 10.1117/12.2043126

Vessel, E.A., Starr, G.G., Rubin, N. (2013). Art reaches within: aesthetic experience, the self and the default-mode network. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7:258, doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00258

Vessel, E.A., Starr, G.G., Rubin, N. (2012). The brain on art: Intense aesthetic experience activates the default mode network. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 6:66, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2012.00066

Vessel, E.A., & Rubin, N. (2010). Beauty and the beholder: Highly individual taste for abstract, but not real-world images. Journal of Vision, 10(2): 18, 1-14, http://journalofvision.org/10/2/18, doi: 10.1167/10.2.18

Yue, X, Vessel, E.A., & Biederman, I. (2007). The neural basis of scene preferences. NeuroReport, 16(6), 525-529. doi: 10.1097/WNR.0b013e328091c1f9

Biederman, I. & Vessel, E.A. (2006). Perceptual pleasure and the brain. American Scientist, 94, 249- 255. doi: 10.1511/2006.59.247