Mustafa Alp Ekinci
@alpekinci.bsky.social
PhD candidate in neuroaesthetics.
Interested in aesthetics and visual perception.
Uni of tübingen and @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
Interested in aesthetics and visual perception.
Uni of tübingen and @dkaiserlab.bsky.social
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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...
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...
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM
📣 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...
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...
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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)
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)
October 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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)
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)
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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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How do we see style?
In a recent series of experiments, Boger and Firestone ask: How do we perceive style?’. Their findings suggest that style perception relies on basic p…
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October 8, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hi Bluesky! 🦋
We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨
Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!
We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨
Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!
August 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Hi Bluesky! 🦋
We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨
Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!
We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨
Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!
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Why use our new library of 300+ art images for your experiment?
🌍 Intentionally inclusive of non-Western art
😀😵💫😢 Normed for 11 emotional states each
📊 Interactive data viz for stimulus selection
Got questions? Let us know!
doi.org/10.1037/aca0...
🌍 Intentionally inclusive of non-Western art
😀😵💫😢 Normed for 11 emotional states each
📊 Interactive data viz for stimulus selection
Got questions? Let us know!
doi.org/10.1037/aca0...
APA PsycNet
doi.org
May 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Why use our new library of 300+ art images for your experiment?
🌍 Intentionally inclusive of non-Western art
😀😵💫😢 Normed for 11 emotional states each
📊 Interactive data viz for stimulus selection
Got questions? Let us know!
doi.org/10.1037/aca0...
🌍 Intentionally inclusive of non-Western art
😀😵💫😢 Normed for 11 emotional states each
📊 Interactive data viz for stimulus selection
Got questions? Let us know!
doi.org/10.1037/aca0...
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Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster „The Adaptive Mind“ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. 🎆✨🥂
May 23, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Kaiser Lab goes #Exzellenz! The excellence cluster „The Adaptive Mind“ got funding for the next 7 years! Proud to be part of this awesome team and looking forward to all the exciting research to come. 🎆✨🥂
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Hi, Bluesky! 👋
We're Creativity Research Journal (CRJ), here to highlight some of the great scientific work being done in the field of creativity research. We're the official journal of @tsfnc.bsky.social. Check out some of our latest articles here! www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...
We're Creativity Research Journal (CRJ), here to highlight some of the great scientific work being done in the field of creativity research. We're the official journal of @tsfnc.bsky.social. Check out some of our latest articles here! www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...
Creativity Research Journal
Publishes research on various approaches to the study of creativity, including behavioral, clinical, educational, genetic, psychoanalytic, social and more.
www.tandfonline.com
May 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Hi, Bluesky! 👋
We're Creativity Research Journal (CRJ), here to highlight some of the great scientific work being done in the field of creativity research. We're the official journal of @tsfnc.bsky.social. Check out some of our latest articles here! www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...
We're Creativity Research Journal (CRJ), here to highlight some of the great scientific work being done in the field of creativity research. We're the official journal of @tsfnc.bsky.social. Check out some of our latest articles here! www.tandfonline.com/journals/hcr...
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JOB ALERT!
2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults.
Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...
2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults.
Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...
Emotion communication in ASD bodies and brains through visual art — Artis Lab
www.artislab.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
JOB ALERT!
2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults.
Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...
2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults.
Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...
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We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring a funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959
April 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring a funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959
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I was interviewed as part of this article on Neuroaesthetics. Also featuring @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social
www.theoverview.art/neuroaesthet...
www.theoverview.art/neuroaesthet...
Neuroaesthetics: Unlocking How Art Can Make Us Smarter, Happier, and Healthier
Neuroaesthetics, an emerging field of research, studies how the arts can enhance our health and wellbeing.
www.theoverview.art
April 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I was interviewed as part of this article on Neuroaesthetics. Also featuring @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social
www.theoverview.art/neuroaesthet...
www.theoverview.art/neuroaesthet...
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We are excited to host you this year at the Museum Reinhard Ernst! The museum exclusively features abstract art and will stay open late on the 22nd for #VSAC2025 attendees to marvel at their extensive collection.
Link: www.museum-re.de/en/
Link: www.museum-re.de/en/
April 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
We are excited to host you this year at the Museum Reinhard Ernst! The museum exclusively features abstract art and will stay open late on the 22nd for #VSAC2025 attendees to marvel at their extensive collection.
Link: www.museum-re.de/en/
Link: www.museum-re.de/en/
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Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! Check out Gongting Wang's EEG work on individual differences in scene perception: Scenes that are more typical for individual observers are represented in an enhanced yet more idiosyncratic way. Link:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Enhanced and idiosyncratic neural representations of personally typical scenes | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Previous research shows that the typicality of visual scenes (i.e. if they are good
examples of a category) determines how easily they can be perceived and represented
in the brain. However, the uniqu...
royalsocietypublishing.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Now out in @royalsocietypublishing.org Proceedings B! Check out Gongting Wang's EEG work on individual differences in scene perception: Scenes that are more typical for individual observers are represented in an enhanced yet more idiosyncratic way. Link:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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While we sadly had to say goodbye to Eva in the EVAlabs, two new people will have the chance to say hello to her at her new lab in Tübingen @iwmtue.bsky.social
www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...
www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...
March 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
While we sadly had to say goodbye to Eva in the EVAlabs, two new people will have the chance to say hello to her at her new lab in Tübingen @iwmtue.bsky.social
www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...
www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...
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Happy to share our paper on the #AestheticsToolbox around the #QIP-Machine has been published #OpenAccsess in Behavior Research Methods!
It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com
March 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Happy to share our paper on the #AestheticsToolbox around the #QIP-Machine has been published #OpenAccsess in Behavior Research Methods!
It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
It can can be used to easily and transparently compute a wide range of quantitative image properties for digital images 📸
📄 link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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"Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique" by @mnadal.bsky.social and I has been accepted for publication in Physics of Life Reviews.
The pre-proof version is online at the following URL:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The pre-proof version is online at the following URL:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique
Can art improve health and wellbeing? The claim that there is strong evidence that engaging with art ameliorates symptoms of mental and physical disor…
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March 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
"Can arts-based interventions improve health? A conceptual and methodological critique" by @mnadal.bsky.social and I has been accepted for publication in Physics of Life Reviews.
The pre-proof version is online at the following URL:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The pre-proof version is online at the following URL:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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VSAC 2025 is honoured to welcome our keynote speakers!
One of them will be Aaron Hertzmann. @aaronhertzmann.bsky.social
Find more information on 2025.vsac.eu
#VSAC2025 #Conference #VisualScienceofArt
VISUAL SCIENCE OF ARI
Keynote
One of them will be Aaron Hertzmann. @aaronhertzmann.bsky.social
Find more information on 2025.vsac.eu
#VSAC2025 #Conference #VisualScienceofArt
VISUAL SCIENCE OF ARI
Keynote
March 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
VSAC 2025 is honoured to welcome our keynote speakers!
One of them will be Aaron Hertzmann. @aaronhertzmann.bsky.social
Find more information on 2025.vsac.eu
#VSAC2025 #Conference #VisualScienceofArt
VISUAL SCIENCE OF ARI
Keynote
One of them will be Aaron Hertzmann. @aaronhertzmann.bsky.social
Find more information on 2025.vsac.eu
#VSAC2025 #Conference #VisualScienceofArt
VISUAL SCIENCE OF ARI
Keynote
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Job alert! We are now looking for a PhD student starting Sept 2025, for a project on visual relations between people and objects, using behavior, EEG, fMRI, and ANNs. The project involves a collaboration with brilliant @ljubapi.bsky.social. You can find the official advertisement below.👇
February 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Job alert! We are now looking for a PhD student starting Sept 2025, for a project on visual relations between people and objects, using behavior, EEG, fMRI, and ANNs. The project involves a collaboration with brilliant @ljubapi.bsky.social. You can find the official advertisement below.👇
We discussed the possible roles of aesthetic pleasure in evolution a bit at the journal club this week, and this makes for a good follow-up read:
Energy efficiency drives evolution, and humans may have evolved pleasure-based signals to optimize actions. Does this extend to aesthetic pleasure?
Yes!
We find strong evidence in silico and human observers!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham.
@uoftpsychology.bsky.social
Yes!
We find strong evidence in silico and human observers!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
With Yikai Tang and Wil Cunningham.
@uoftpsychology.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We discussed the possible roles of aesthetic pleasure in evolution a bit at the journal club this week, and this makes for a good follow-up read:
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A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics researchers.
go.bsky.app/HKuJYiw
#empiricalaesthetics
#neuroaesthetics
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#empiricalaesthetics
#neuroaesthetics
January 24, 2025 at 7:18 PM
A starter pack for empirical aesthetics and neuroaesthetics researchers.
go.bsky.app/HKuJYiw
#empiricalaesthetics
#neuroaesthetics
go.bsky.app/HKuJYiw
#empiricalaesthetics
#neuroaesthetics
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In recognition of Segio Della Sall's innovative use of artwork for the journal Cortex, I wrote this piece about using imagery to enhance curiosity about neuroscience papers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSNC2VHYC...
authors.elsevier.com
January 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
In recognition of Segio Della Sall's innovative use of artwork for the journal Cortex, I wrote this piece about using imagery to enhance curiosity about neuroscience papers. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSNC2VHYC...
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Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Decoding the rhythmic representation and communication of visual contents
Rhythmic neural activity is considered essential for adaptively modulating responses in the visual system. In this opinion article we posit that visua…
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January 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Now out in @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social : We discuss how the contents of visual perception, imagery, and prediction can be decoded from rhythmic brain activity and argue that such rhythmic representations offer new insights into neural information propagation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
VSAC 2025: Call for abstracts and symposia!
Submit your proposal at 2025.vsac.eu/submission
We look forward to hearing about your work!
#art #science #visualartofscience #conference #vsac #visualart #artscience #illusionart
Submit your proposal at 2025.vsac.eu/submission
We look forward to hearing about your work!
#art #science #visualartofscience #conference #vsac #visualart #artscience #illusionart
January 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
January 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Hallo Bluesky!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
Wir sind die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. #DFG Als Selbstverwaltungsorganisation der #Wissenschaft in Deutschland fördern wir erkenntnisgeleitete #Forschung. Hier erhaltet Ihr Infos u.a. zu Förderangeboten, Ausschreibungen und Anträgen. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
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Come work as a postdoctoral researcher in our research group at KU Leuven in Belgium and help us unravel the visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Postdoc position “Visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences”
Exciting opportunity for a postdoc interested in visual aesthetic preferences!
www.kuleuven.be
January 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Come work as a postdoctoral researcher in our research group at KU Leuven in Belgium and help us unravel the visual factors underlying aesthetic image preferences! www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...