We are excited to announce the winners of the 2026 IAEA Awards 🏆
Anjan Chatterjee - Fechner Award
Edward A. Vessel - Washburn Award
Aenne Brielmann - Baumgarten Award
Katherine Cotter - Baumgarten Award
Congratulations! 🎉
Award winners will be honored at IAEA2026 in Jena and deliver an address

NYAS Publications Aesthetic experience extends beyond beauty and liking. Using a structured taxonomy of emotional and cognitive impacts, we measured agreement in responses to artworks. Additionally, we tested such agr...

Our report of variability within components of aesthetic experiences. Going Beyond Beauty: Characterizing the Complexity of Aesthetic Experiences - Estrada Gonzalez - 2026 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An interesting idea. I could also imagine ppl who perceive more beauty experience the same duration as being longer. In this study, the time was fixed and participants knew that we were going for 15m.

How Slow-Looking Changes Our Experience of Art When we take the time to be present and curious, we allow for more complex aesthetic and emotional responses to emerge.

Our take about the importance of slowing down in this manic world and "How Slow-Looking Changes Our Experience of Art" | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

New Frankenstein, Old Biases Most people are biased to negatively judge people with facial anomalies. How does popular cinema reinforce this psychological effect?

Our take on the new movie, contextualized by our neuroaesthetics research. @pcfn.bsky.social. New Frankenstein, Old Biases | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Highly recommended!

now THAT is a deep cut- work from the 90s!

What is the relationship between art, mind, and transcendence. This episode of Closer to Truth explores this fascinating question.
closertotruth.com/video/how-do...

The curious case of Cortex covers

Sometimes, to communicate science, we should choose "art that [is] ambiguous, that confuse and unsettle. Images that provoke more than illustrate."

Reminds me of the Cortex journal cover case and @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social commentary on it

One set of ideas that include language: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Designing for the Mind Does nature, or nature-inspired interior design, help restore fatigued attention, ameliorate stress, and make us more creative?

A report on our recent study on nature and biophilic design. Designing for the Mind | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Glass Cosmos

How do you think of art and science? More specifically, about artists in residence programs? Here is our version of one such program. 🧪
thepenngazette.com/glass-cosmos/

The Long and Short of Longevity: Why More Might Be Less Despite increased understanding in how to modify human aging, longevity as a wellness trend sidesteps questions of societal inequities and what makes a good life.

Longevity seems to be everywhere, with acolytes and enthusiasts abounding. Some cautionary comments. The Long and Short of Longevity: Why More Might Be Less | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Yes. Worrisome indeed.

Beauty + Morality, Then Add Alcohol... With Mariola Paruzel-Czachura YouTube video by Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5nK...

One joy of running a lab is to host the best and brightest from around the world- a practice sadly under threat. From @moralnosc.bsky.social on the science of beauty and morality and her stay at @pcfn.bsky.social 🧪

Congress on Brain, Behavior and Emotions 2025

Looking forward to giving 3 talks at the Brain, Behavior, and Emotions conference. Also excited- first time in Brazil! braincongress.com.br/evento/brain...

Pleased to be featured in the inaugural installment of the Neuroarts resource center new interview series: Voices from the filed. 🧪. www.neuroartsresourcecenter.com/post/voices-...

An Expensive Alzheimer’s Lifestyle Plan Offers False Hope, Experts Say

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/w...

Thousands of people have paid for Dale Bredesen’s unconventional program to reverse Alzheimer’s symptoms. The medical establishment says there’s little to no proof it works.

Neuroscams: Buyers Beware Neurotech companies promise to harness electrophysiology to help us flourish. How do you decide if their claims should be taken seriously?

Some thoughts on the many promises of neurotech. Neuroscams: Buyers Beware | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

A Room with a View (of Art) Enhancing the built environment with visual art is a major program of the arts in healthcare movement. Does it work?

With the usual caveats of the need for more and better studies. Yet, the evidence does support the use of some kinds of art in clinical spaces. 🧪A Room with a View (of Art) | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

The Rise, Flower, and Fall of a Renaissance A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s demise.

🤔💭 Check out the recent Psychology Today article by Anjan Chatterjee about CACI Chairman S. Frederick Starr’s book, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

🔗 Read the @psychologytoday.com article by @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social here: buff.ly/MCfwI16

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.

I was interviewed as part of this article on Neuroaesthetics. Also featuring @anjanchatterjee.bsky.social

www.theoverview.art/neuroaesthet...

Thank you for writing. I hope you continue reporting in this vein.

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.

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...

The Rise, Flower, and Fall of a Renaissance A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s demise.

A natural history of innovation in #science, #math, astronomy, #arts, and #culture. The Rise, Flower, and Fall of a Renaissance | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

An Artist’s Immersion Into Neuroaesthetics What happens when an artist steps into the world of empirical science? A residency at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics revealed unexpected parallels between art and science.

Our artist-in-residence @judithschaechter.bsky.social meditates on her time at the @pcfn.bsky.social. An Artist’s Immersion Into Neuroaesthetics | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Is Art Appreciation Going Digital? Can viewing art digitally match the magic of standing face-to-face with an original? Our research challenges long-held intuitions about the power of presence.

A non-technical description of a peer-reviewed paper I posted about a few days ago. Surprising findings (to me). Lesson: deeply held intuitions sometimes do not survive scientific scrutiny. 🧪 Is Art Appreciation Going Digital? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...

Are #nature imagery and other kinds of art helpful in #health-care environments? Our review of what is likely to be helpful, in what context, and how we can move forward to better ground the role of #art in #health. 🧪https://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/15/7/1027

A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started | Alexander Hurst The Trump administration is cutting funding, while specifically targeting institutions like Columbia. No wonder academics want out, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

The brain drain... 🧪 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...