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The International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) is an organization of researchers who use scientific methods to investigate aesthetic experience and aesthetic behavior in a wide variety of domains, including encounters with beauty, visual art, music, literature, film, theater, philosophy, and museum behavior.
It is a specialized sub-field of empirical aesthetics that distinguishes itself by using experiments to test causal hypotheses. In contrast, empirical aesthetics also embraces survey studies, field observations, and other non-experimental methods. The field has developed significantly over the past few decades.
Empirical aesthetics takes a scientific approach to the study of aesthetic experience of art, music, or any object that can give rise to aesthetic judgments. [2] Neuroesthetics is a term coined by Semir Zeki in 1999 [ 3 ] and received its formal definition in 2002 as the scientific study of the neural bases for the contemplation and creation of ...
Throughout his career, Vladimir Konečni has conducted numerous experiments in diverse areas of empirical aesthetics – a field dominated by scientifically oriented psychologists and thus often referred to as psychological or (psycho-) aesthetics (distinct from "aesthetics", which usually refers to philosophical aesthetics). [60]
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics: Frankfurt: cultural studies, social science, cognitive science, linguistics: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior: Radolfzell / Konstanz: evolutionary biology, ethology, ecology: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology: Leipzig
Aesthetics examines the philosophy of aesthetic value, which is determined by critical judgments of artistic taste; [2] thus, the function of aesthetics is the "critical reflection on art, culture and nature". [3] [4] Aesthetics studies natural and artificial sources of experiences and how people form a judgment about those sources of experience.
Helmut Leder (born 1963 in Bardenberg, Germany) is a Professor of Empirical Aesthetics in Psychology at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Vienna, in Austria and he is the Head of the Cognitive Sciences Research Hub.
From 2014 until the end of 2021, he was the Director of the Department of Neuroscience at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA). [3] In 2019, he co-founded the Center for Language, Music and Emotion (CLaME) [4] an international joint research center, co-sponsored by the Max Planck Society and New York University.