Publications and Outputs

Spee, B., de Vries, N. M., Zeggio, S., Plijnaer, M., Koksma, J. J., Duits, A. A., Stap, T., & Pelowski, M. (2025). Unleashing creativity in people with Parkinson’s disease: a pilot study of a co-designed creative arts therapy. Journal of Neurology, 272(2), 1-10.

Spee, B. T., Stap, T. B., Plijnaer, M., Pasman, G., Zeggio, S., Duits, A., Crone, J. S., Haeyen, S., Pelowski, M., Bloem, B. R., & Koksma, J. J. (2025). Co-creating a person-centered creative engagement intervention for Parkinson's care. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1469120.

Rambhoros, M., Neutra, R. R., Cerarols, R., & Pelowski, M. Operationalising'Loveability': an Interdisciplinary Approach to Enriching Quality of Life Experiences in Cities through Creative Cultural Spaces. Frontiers in Built Environment, 10, 1504553.

Pelowski, M., Cotter, K. N., Miller, S., & Leder, H. (in press). Framing Wellbeing and Societal Challenge Mechanisms via Distinct Outcomes of Art Experience?: A Brief Revisit to the VIMAP. Physics of Life Reviews (Special 20th Anniversary Issue).

Trupp, M. D., Howlin, C., Fekete, A., Kutsche, J., Fingerhut, J., Pelowski, M. (in press). The Impact of Viewing Art on Well-being—A Systematic Review of the Evidence Base and Suggested Mechanisms. The Journal of Positive Psychology.

Pizzolante, M., Pelowski, M., Demmer, T. R., Bartolotta, S., Sarcinella, E. D., Gaggioli, A., & Chirico, A. (2024). Aesthetic experiences and their transformative power: a systematic review. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1328449.

Tie, B., Yang, W., Huo, T., Gao, Y., Yang, X., Tian, D., Pelowski, M., & Qiu, J.* (in press). Empathy to Creativity: the associations between empathy and everyday creativity. Journal of Personality.

Miller, S., Cotter, K. N., Fingerhut, J., Leder, H., Pelowski, M. (in press). What Can Happen When We Look at Art?: An Exploratory Network Model and Latent Profile Analysis of Affective/Cognitive Aspects Underlying Shared, Supraordinate Responses to Museum Visual Art. Empirical Studies of the Arts. DOI: 10.1177/02762374241292576

Cabbai, G., Kühnapfel, C., Prinz, J., Kaltwasser, L., Fingerhut, J., & Pelowski, M. (in press). Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Mikuni, J., Spee, B.T.M., Forlani, G., Leder, H., Scharnowski, F., Nakamura, K., Watanabe, K. Kawabata, H., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (in press). Cross-Cultural Comparison of Beauty Judgments in Visual Art Using Machine Learning Analysis of Art Attribute Predictors Among Japanese and German Speakers. Scientific Reports.

Beder, D., Pelowski, M., & Imamoğlu, Ç. (2024). Influence of Complexity and Gestalt Principles on Aesthetic Preferences for Building Façades: An Eye Tracking Study. Journal of Eye Movement Research.

Pelowski, M., Cotter, K. N., Specker, E., Fingerhut, J., Trupp, m. D., & Speidel, K. (2024). How lasting is the impact of art?: An exploratory study of the incidence and duration of art exhibition-induced prosocial attitude change using a two-week daily diary method. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000670.

Stamkou, E., Dunham, R., Pelowski, M., Lin, Y., & Gelfand, M. (2024). When rule breaking in art falls flat: Cultural tightness deflates deviant artists’ impact. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 18 (1), 14-30. DOI: 10.1037/aca0000650.

° Pelowski, M., Spee, B. T., Arato, J., Dörflinger, F., Ishizu, T., & Richard, A. (2024). Measures, Constructs, and Constructing Measurement: Reply to comments on “Can we really ‘read’art to see the changing brain?”. Physics of Life Reviews, 48, 22-30.

Benvenuti, M., Scorolli, C., di Iorio, A., Pelowski, M., & Chirico, A. (2024). Emerging technologies in varied domains: Perspectives and future research directions. Computers in Human Behavior, 151, 1-4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108016.

Spee, B.T.M., Arato, J., Mikuni, J., Tran, U.S., Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2024). The Dynamics of Experiencing Gestalt and Aha in Cubist Art: Pupil Responses and Art Evaluations Show a Complex Interplay of Task, Stimuli Content, and Time Course, Frontiers in Psychology, Perception Science.

Pelowski, M., Specker, E., Boddy, J., Immelmann, B., Haiduk, F., Spezie, G., Ibanez De Aldecoa, P., Jean-Joseph, H., Leder, H., & Markey, P. (2022). Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(6), 772-792. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000436.

Leder, H., & Pelowski, M. (2024). Metaphors or mechanism? Predictive coding and a (brief) history of empirical study of the arts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379, 20220427.

Valuch, C., Pelowski, M., Peltoketo, V. T., Hakala, J., & Leder, H. (2023). Let's put a smile on that face—A positive facial expression improves aesthetics of portrait photographs. Royal Society Open Science, 10(10), 230413.

Spee, B. T., Mikuni, J., Leder, H., Scharnowski, F., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2023). Machine learning revealed symbolism, emotionality, and imaginativeness as primary predictors of creativity evaluations of western art paintings. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 12966.

Demmer, T. R., Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., & Pelowski, M. (2023). Does an emotional connection to art really require a human artist? Emotion and intentionality responses to AI-versus human-created art and impact on aesthetic experience. Computers in Human Behavior, 148, 107875. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107875. 

Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., & Pelowski, M. (2023). The role of the body in the experience of installation art: a case study of visitors’ bodily, emotional, and transformative experiences in Tomás Saraceno’s “in orbit”. Frontiers in Psychology, 14 (1192689). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1192689.

Trupp, M. D., Bignardi, G., Specker, E., Vessel, E. A., & Pelowski, M. (2023). Who benefits from online art viewing, and how: The role of pleasure, meaningfulness, and trait aesthetic responsiveness in computer-based art interventions for well-being. Computers in Human Behavior, 148, 107875. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107764.

Reymond, C., Vornhagen, J. B., Pelowski, M., Opwis, K., Mekler, E. D. (2023). Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Online first. DOI: 10.1037/aca0000523.

Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., Brinkman, H., Ganster, V., Tanaka, T., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Güldenpfennig, F., Gartus, A., Rosenberg, R., & Pelowski, M. (2023). How Do We Move in Front of Art? How Does This Relate to Art Experience? Linking Movement, Eye Tracking, Emotion, and Evaluations in a Gallery-Like Setting. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 1-61. DOI: 10.1177/02762374231160000. 

Pelowski, M., Spee, B. T., Arato, J., Dörflinger, F., Ishizu, T., & Richard, A. (2022). Can we really ‘read’ art to see the changing brain? A review and empirical assessment of clinical case reports and published artworks for systematic evidence of quality or style changes linked to damage or neurodegenerative disease. Physics of Life Reviews. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.07.005.

Trupp, M., Bignardi, G., Chana, K., Specker, E., & Pelowski, M. (2022). Can a brief interaction with online, digital art improve wellbeing?: A comparative study of the impact of online art and culture presentations on mood, state-anxiety, subjective wellbeing, and loneliness. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. 1-17. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.782033.

Fekete, A., Pelowski, M., Specker, E., Brieber, D., Rosenberg, R., & Leder, H. (2022). The Vienna Art Picture System (VAPS): A data set of 999 paintings and subjective ratings for art and aesthetics research. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000460.

Spee, B. T., Pelowski, M., Arato, J., Mikuni, J., Tran, U. S., Eisenegger, C., & Leder, H. (2022). Social reputation influences on liking and willingness-to-pay for artworks: A multimethod design investigating choice behavior along with physiological measures and motivational factors. PloS one, 17(4), e0266020.

Spee, B. T., Sladky, R., Fingerhut, J., Laciny, A., Kraus, C., Carls-Diamante, S., Brücke, C., Pelowski, M., & Treven, M. (2022). Repeating patterns: Predictive processing suggests an aesthetic learning role of the basal ganglia in repetitive stereotyped behaviors. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.930293.

Specker, E., Stamkou, E., Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2022). Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? The impact of curatorial narrative of artistic deviance on perceived artist influence. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(2), 332-342. Online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000320.

Leder, H., Hakala, J., Peltoketo, V. T., Valuch, C., & Pelowski, M. (2022). Swipes and Saves: A Taxonomy of Factors Influencing Aesthetic Assessments and Perceived Beauty of Mobile Phone Photographs. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 786977-786977. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.

Ansorge, U., Pelowski, M., Quigley, C., Peschl, M. F., & Leder, H. (2022). Art and Perception: Using Empirical Aesthetics in Research on Consciousness. Frontiers in Psychology, 2861.

Mikuni, J., Specker, E., Pelowski, M., Leder, H., & Kawabata, H. (2021). Is there a general ‘art fatigue’ effect? A cross-paradigm, cross-cultural study of repeated art viewing in the laboratory. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000460.

Perez Matos, J. A., Richard, A., Spee, B. T., & Pelowski, M. (2021). Neurodegenerative diseases, art and creativity: therapeutic implications. Neurodegenerative Disease Management, 11(03), 187-192.

Liu, T., Duan, L., Dai, R., Pelowski, M., & Zhu, C. (2021). Team-work, Team-brain: Exploring synchrony and team interdependence in a nine-person drumming task via multiparticipant hyperscanning and inter-brain network topology with fNIRS. NeuroImage, 237, 118147.

He, L., Pelowski, M., Yu, W., & Liu, T. (2021). Neural resonance in consumers' right inferior frontal gyrus predicts attitudes toward advertising. Psychology & Marketing, 38(9), 1538-1549. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21523.

He, L., Freudenreich, T., Yu, W., Pelowski, M., & Liu, T. (2021). Methodological structure for future consumer neuroscience research. Psychology & Marketing, 38(8), 1161-1181. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21478.

Reymond, C., Pelowski, M., Opwis, K., Takala, T., & Mekler, E. D. (2020). Aesthetic Evaluation of Digitally Reproduced Art Images. Frontiers in psychology, 11, 3512. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.615575.

Mitrovic, A., Hegelmaier, L. M., Leder, H., & Pelowski, M. (2020). Does beauty capture the eye, even if it's not (overtly) adaptive? A comparative eye-tracking study of spontaneous attention and visual preference with VAST abstract art. Acta Psychologica, 209, 103-133. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103133.

Pelowski, M., Cabbai, G., Brinkmann, H., Mikuni, J., Hegelmaier, L. M., Forster, M., ... & Leder, H. (2020). The kitsch switch—or (when) do experts dislike Thomas Kinkade art? A study of time-based evaluation changes in top-down versus bottom-up assessment. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Online first. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000302.

Specker, E., Forster, M., Brinkmann, H., Boddy, J., Immelmann, B., Goller, J., Pelowski, M., Rosenberg, R., & Leder, H. (2020). Warm, lively, rough? Assessing agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks. PLoS One, 15(5), e0232083. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232083.