People differ in how they respond to artworks. Measuring such individual differences is helpful for explaining response...
Motivation and Emotion
Neuroaesthetics
Neuroaesthetics uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to understand the nature of aesthetic experiences, such as...
The facial expressions of mice
The face of a mouse reveals its emotions. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology are the first to...
Listening to birdsong reveals basic features of rate perception...
The timing of acoustic events is central to human speech and music. Tempo tends to be slower in aesthetic contexts: rates...
Decision-making process becomes visible in the brain
Transparent fish larvae reveal how a decision makes its way through the brain Without hardly noticing, we make countless...
The neocortex is critical for learning and memory is more...
New study finds that the auditory cortex is indispensable for threat memory, in particular for naturalistic stimuli. A...
Continuous ratings of movie watching reveal idiosyncratic...
Visual aesthetic experiences unfold over time, yet most of our understanding of such experiences comes from experiments...
Mothers’ behavior influences bonding hormone oxytocin in babies
A new epigenetic study suggests that mothers’ behavior can also have a substantial impact on their children’s...
“Whoa, I didn’t expect that”
How babies integrate new events into their knowledge. Babies seek to understand the world around them and learn many new...
The default-mode network represents aesthetic appeal that...
Visual aesthetic evaluations, which impact decision-making and well-being, recruit the ventral visual pathway, subcortical...