✨Congratulations to @mactrupp.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD last week! 🥂 🎉

Lots happening in the Lab: Helmut Leder is featured in a podcast (www.krone.at/3943666) and an episode of Wiener Wissen (www.krone.at/3943243). The ARTIS group can be seen on ORF2 on 9th November at 9.05 am tv.orf.at/kunstalsme10....
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Photo Credit:
krone.tv (left), Good Media Solutions (right)

It's been a weekend filled with art for the EvaLabs:

Helmut Leder attended an exhibition opening at Toolip Art Gallery featuring one of our Master students Elisabeth Noller.

Meanwhile some of our PhD students checked out the Modern Githic exhibition at the Albertina.

What happens when we encounter art while just going about our everyday life, walking through Vienna? 🎨 We tried to answer this question by looking at people looking at art in an observational study tracking naturally occurring interactions with art in our study area. 🕵‍♀️
doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Our dear @margot-dehove.bsky.social is leaving us for a research stay in the UK through the OeAD Marietta Blau scholarship. Yesterday we said goodbye with lots of laughter (although we are sad to see her go) and one of Margot's favourite things in Austria (Laugenecke from Billa)

We are looking for German speaking participants for a study on communication of emotions through art and text.
See image below or the link for more info:
univie.questionpro.eu/t/AB3u5rNZB3...

@franzroman.bsky.social is looking for 2 Vienna-based summer interns to help with his study on the role of the dopamine system on cognitive flexibility and creativity. 🎨 See below for more info (in German) and get in touch with Franz directly! 👨‍🔬

Can you judge a book by its cover? Turns out—yes, and it sticks with you. 📚✨
Our new article explores how text + image features on book covers affect memory and aesthetic judgement—using Italian novels as part of a collaboration with the University of Verona doi.org/10.3390/lite...
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Last week we went on a little lab retreat. We stayed at the beautiful Rudolfsvilla in Reichenau an der Rax. We had food prepared by our wonderful chefs Helmut, Jan, and Kirren. We discussed future career plans of our PhD students in the garden and around the fire. We all had a beautiful time ❤

Today we skipped our lab meeting and went to Foto Arsenal instead, a wonderful new museum for photography in Vienna's 3rd district.
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Do aesthetic experiences require real sensory input, or can mental imagery evoke them just as powerfully?
Our study shows that vivid mental imagery alone can trigger aesthetic experiences nearly indistinguishable from those caused by real sensory input! doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112588

🥂🎓 Congratulations to Akshay Mendhakar who successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Text mining as an assistive tool to improve aesthetic reading experience in English as a foreign language" yesterday!
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Last September we celebrated the EVALabs' 20th anniversary, now we finally have some photos to share from the event. 🎉🥂

📷: Chris Valuch

head over to our lab website to see more eva.univie.ac.at

Last week we felt a bit down, so we went to the Albertina to see their current exhibition 'Matthew Wong -- Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a last resort'. While the lives if both artists may not have been the happiest, we for sure felt better after seeing their art.

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...