Kirren Chana
@kirrenchana.bsky.social
PhD candidate @evalabs.bsky.social & children's book illustrator
urban everyday aesthetics • perception • drawing • language • wellbeing
https://bit.ly/kirrenchana
urban everyday aesthetics • perception • drawing • language • wellbeing
https://bit.ly/kirrenchana
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Kirren Chana
@kirrenchana.bsky.social
· Jun 16
🚨 New Publication! 🚨
📚✨ How do text and image features on book covers influence what we remember and how we evaluate them?
As part of a collaborative project with @evalabs.bsky.social @univie.ac.at & literature researchers in Verona
Full study in Literature (MDPI):
👉 doi.org/10.3390/lite...
📚✨ How do text and image features on book covers influence what we remember and how we evaluate them?
As part of a collaborative project with @evalabs.bsky.social @univie.ac.at & literature researchers in Verona
Full study in Literature (MDPI):
👉 doi.org/10.3390/lite...
Reposted by Kirren Chana
Submissions are now open!
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
iaea-jena2026.org
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
iaea-jena2026.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Submissions are now open!
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
iaea-jena2026.org
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
iaea-jena2026.org
Reposted by Kirren Chana
Submissions are now open!
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
November 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Submissions are now open!
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
Reposted by Kirren Chana
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)
Reposted by Kirren Chana
Volunteers needed to help organize next years CoBeNe PhD Academy!
You will have the chance to learn how to organise the conference and gain (4) ECTS for it.
vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-news-edu...
Interested in being a volunteer? email: vds.cobene@univie.ac.at
You will have the chance to learn how to organise the conference and gain (4) ECTS for it.
vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-news-edu...
Interested in being a volunteer? email: vds.cobene@univie.ac.at
July 9, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Volunteers needed to help organize next years CoBeNe PhD Academy!
You will have the chance to learn how to organise the conference and gain (4) ECTS for it.
vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-news-edu...
Interested in being a volunteer? email: vds.cobene@univie.ac.at
You will have the chance to learn how to organise the conference and gain (4) ECTS for it.
vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-news-edu...
Interested in being a volunteer? email: vds.cobene@univie.ac.at
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In September, the Open Science Festival will take place @univie.ac.at . Want to explore the future of Open Science & discover ongoing work? Become part of a vibrant academic community through networking opportunities?
More info here: osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/en/
More info here: osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/en/
July 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
In September, the Open Science Festival will take place @univie.ac.at . Want to explore the future of Open Science & discover ongoing work? Become part of a vibrant academic community through networking opportunities?
More info here: osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/en/
More info here: osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/en/
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I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)
The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...
www.psychjob.eu
June 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...
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my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
Language and Computation in Neural Systems
We are an international group of scientists consisting of linguists, cognitive scientists, cognitive neuroscientists, computational neuroscientists, computational modellers, computational scientists, ...
lacns.github.io
May 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us!
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa...
(please share widely)
🚨 New Publication! 🚨
📚✨ How do text and image features on book covers influence what we remember and how we evaluate them?
As part of a collaborative project with @evalabs.bsky.social @univie.ac.at & literature researchers in Verona
Full study in Literature (MDPI):
👉 doi.org/10.3390/lite...
📚✨ How do text and image features on book covers influence what we remember and how we evaluate them?
As part of a collaborative project with @evalabs.bsky.social @univie.ac.at & literature researchers in Verona
Full study in Literature (MDPI):
👉 doi.org/10.3390/lite...
June 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM
🚨 New Publication! 🚨
📚✨ How do text and image features on book covers influence what we remember and how we evaluate them?
As part of a collaborative project with @evalabs.bsky.social @univie.ac.at & literature researchers in Verona
Full study in Literature (MDPI):
👉 doi.org/10.3390/lite...
📚✨ How do text and image features on book covers influence what we remember and how we evaluate them?
As part of a collaborative project with @evalabs.bsky.social @univie.ac.at & literature researchers in Verona
Full study in Literature (MDPI):
👉 doi.org/10.3390/lite...
Reposted by Kirren Chana
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 ❤
June 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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 ❤
Reposted by Kirren Chana
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
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
May 19, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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
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
Reposted by Kirren Chana
Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠
‼️ Deadline: May 18th
‼️ Deadline: May 18th
🚨 Come work with us!
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty.
More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2
Please share widely 🔁
3y_PhDposition_univie_ScanUnit.pdf
shorturl.at
May 12, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠
‼️ Deadline: May 18th
‼️ Deadline: May 18th
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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...
Reposted by Kirren Chana
🥂🎓 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!
🎉🥂
🎉🥂
April 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🥂🎓 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!
🎉🥂
🎉🥂
Reposted by Kirren Chana
Lovely write up of our artist-in-residence @judithschaechter.bsky.social at the @pcfn.bsky.social written by @sarcher.bsky.social . Scientific inspiration made manifest in art. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
At a Pennsylvania Museum, an Artist’s Glass Dome Provides Sanctuary (Gift Article)
As the artist in residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, Judith Schaechter created a giant dome to spark joy. It’s now on view outside Philadelphia.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Lovely write up of our artist-in-residence @judithschaechter.bsky.social at the @pcfn.bsky.social written by @sarcher.bsky.social . Scientific inspiration made manifest in art. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...
Reposted by Kirren Chana
🎉 New paper out 🎉
We tested participants in a biophilic space, a control space & a forested area. We found:
🍀 higher aesthetic ratings for the natural environment
🍀 higher divergent thinking in the natural environment
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
#neuroaesthetics #biophilia @pcfn.bsky.social
We tested participants in a biophilic space, a control space & a forested area. We found:
🍀 higher aesthetic ratings for the natural environment
🍀 higher divergent thinking in the natural environment
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
#neuroaesthetics #biophilia @pcfn.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🎉 New paper out 🎉
We tested participants in a biophilic space, a control space & a forested area. We found:
🍀 higher aesthetic ratings for the natural environment
🍀 higher divergent thinking in the natural environment
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
#neuroaesthetics #biophilia @pcfn.bsky.social
We tested participants in a biophilic space, a control space & a forested area. We found:
🍀 higher aesthetic ratings for the natural environment
🍀 higher divergent thinking in the natural environment
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
#neuroaesthetics #biophilia @pcfn.bsky.social
Reposted by Kirren Chana
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
📷: Chris Valuch
head over to our lab website to see more eva.univie.ac.at
April 14, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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
📷: Chris Valuch
head over to our lab website to see more eva.univie.ac.at
Reposted by Kirren Chana
“What an odd thing“ wrote Oliver Sacks “to see an entire species playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music’...“. Our new paper, led by ace student @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, unpacks this puzzle from a genetic perspective. 🧪
Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment - Nature Communications
Here, Bignardi et al. report on a study of over 9,000 Swedish twins that indicates the ability to enjoy music is influenced by multiple partly distinct genetic factors.
www.nature.com
March 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
“What an odd thing“ wrote Oliver Sacks “to see an entire species playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music’...“. Our new paper, led by ace student @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, unpacks this puzzle from a genetic perspective. 🧪
Reposted by Kirren Chana
PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art.
www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....
www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....
www.bertamini.org
April 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art.
www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....
www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....
Join me online today with Conscious Vienna #ccities25! 🌍
🎨 The Aesthetic City: The Art of Urban Wellbeing in Vienna 🏛️✨
📅 Date: March 25, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM (CET) until 2:00 PM (CET)
📍 Location: Online
theccd.org/event/the-ae...
🎨 The Aesthetic City: The Art of Urban Wellbeing in Vienna 🏛️✨
📅 Date: March 25, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM (CET) until 2:00 PM (CET)
📍 Location: Online
theccd.org/event/the-ae...
March 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Join me online today with Conscious Vienna #ccities25! 🌍
🎨 The Aesthetic City: The Art of Urban Wellbeing in Vienna 🏛️✨
📅 Date: March 25, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM (CET) until 2:00 PM (CET)
📍 Location: Online
theccd.org/event/the-ae...
🎨 The Aesthetic City: The Art of Urban Wellbeing in Vienna 🏛️✨
📅 Date: March 25, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM (CET) until 2:00 PM (CET)
📍 Location: Online
theccd.org/event/the-ae...
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Are you looking for a Master's program? Are you interested in research on #art, #neuroaesthetics?
👀🎨🎹🏘️🧠
The new 1-year MSc in Cognition and Aesthetics at Liverpool Hope might be the perfect fit!
rb.gy/pojlr1
👀🎨🎹🏘️🧠
The new 1-year MSc in Cognition and Aesthetics at Liverpool Hope might be the perfect fit!
rb.gy/pojlr1
Cognition and Aesthetics (MSc)
www.hope.ac.uk
March 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Are you looking for a Master's program? Are you interested in research on #art, #neuroaesthetics?
👀🎨🎹🏘️🧠
The new 1-year MSc in Cognition and Aesthetics at Liverpool Hope might be the perfect fit!
rb.gy/pojlr1
👀🎨🎹🏘️🧠
The new 1-year MSc in Cognition and Aesthetics at Liverpool Hope might be the perfect fit!
rb.gy/pojlr1
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New study by @margot-dehove.bsky.social of the Faculty of Psychology of Uni Vienna explored the influence of urban art interventions on attraction and wellbeing and published them in Frontiers in Psychology. 🖼 #psychology #PsychSciSky
Read the study here: ⤵
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Read the study here: ⤵
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Exploring the influence of urban art interventions on attraction and wellbeing: an empirical field experiment
While cities are attractive places, brimming with opportunities and possibilities for their inhabitants, they have also been found to have negative consequen...
www.frontiersin.org
December 17, 2024 at 9:10 AM
New study by @margot-dehove.bsky.social of the Faculty of Psychology of Uni Vienna explored the influence of urban art interventions on attraction and wellbeing and published them in Frontiers in Psychology. 🖼 #psychology #PsychSciSky
Read the study here: ⤵
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Read the study here: ⤵
www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Reposted by Kirren Chana
As part of the EvaLabs 20th anniversary, some of our PhD students co-organised a summer school using the Cobene PhD Organised Events Grant.
Read more on the event here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/p...
Also want to organise and event? find info here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/f...
Read more on the event here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/p...
Also want to organise and event? find info here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/f...
November 27, 2024 at 1:40 PM
As part of the EvaLabs 20th anniversary, some of our PhD students co-organised a summer school using the Cobene PhD Organised Events Grant.
Read more on the event here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/p...
Also want to organise and event? find info here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/f...
Read more on the event here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/p...
Also want to organise and event? find info here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/f...