“There is strength in serenity,” goes the old saying. But the idea that our state of mind can influence the pleasure we take in reading, is new information.

Award Given to Paper on Reading and Flow

International study investigates the role of music in regulating emotions in times of crisis

How Does a View of Nature Gain Its Gloss of Beauty?

International Study Investigates How We Distinguish Speech from Music

New Insights Into Self-Evaluation in Music Performance

Fredrik Ullén to Head Research in Cognitive Neuropsychology 

International Research Team Finds Paradoxical Connection in the Perception of Emotions

Songbird Uses Musical Techniques Like Those of Humans

Aesthetically Appealing Art Increases Creative Inspiration

New Journal Article Investigates the Appeal of Erotic Bestsellers

First Large-Scale Study of Feel-Good Films and Their Audiences

New Journal Article Surveys the Field of the Science of Aesthetics

International team of researchers identifies cognitive computations underlying human predictive behavior.

A New Discovery About Spatial Representation in the Brain

International research team discovers how and where statistical learning happens in the brain

INHABIT, the artist-in-residence program of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, is launching its second season.

Internationales Forschungsprojekt untersucht erstmals die Wirkung digitaler Konzertformate

Due to the increasing number of coronavirus infections, the exhibition INHABITING basis will not be publicly accessible for the time being.
 

Sound artist Pedro Oliveira investigates speech recognition and migration

Launch of worldwide online study to investigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on music behavior

Artificial intelligence and 80,000 ancient Chinese poems show that constraint poetic structures aid poetry appreciation.

The second residency of the artist-in-residence program INHABIT just started. Media artist Lea Letzel will be exploring links between live music concerts and pyrotechnics.

New model contradicts previous hypotheses.

Neues Artist-in-Residence Programm startet. Bewerbung bis 3.11.2019 möglich.

Study on cross-cultural music perception published in Current Biology

New Study Points to Universal Code in Our Brains for What We Find Beautiful

A new study analyses varieties of beauty

A recent study puts the influence of the composer’s prestige on the evaluation of classical music into perspective and shows: The enjoyment of music is promoted by lively texts.

Neuroscientific study by an international research team sheds light on the role of the default mode network in the brain.

Neue, groß angelegte Studie in Frankfurt erforscht, was Kinder beim Hören von Geschichten fühlen

Previous theories on temporal processes in the human brain need to be revised

Comparative cultural study contradicts previous assumptions about universal perception of music

Fundamental differences found in taste for naturally occurring aesthetic domains and for artifacts of human culture

Wissenschaftler des MPIEA leiten MEG-Demonstrations-Messung mit Fußball-Legende Charly Körbel für „Begehbares Gehirn“ im neuen Senckenberg Naturmuseum Frankfurt.

Internationales Forschungsprojekt „Experimental Concert Research“ untersucht, was ein klassisches Konzert ausmacht