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Ass.-Prof. Matthew Pelowski, PhD
T: +43-1-4277-47112
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/persons/matthew-pelowski(a82e0015-2854-4b21-ac57-a9095d8107dd).html
Summer term 2024
200004 PR Forschungsorientiertes Praktikum
200219 SE Masterarbeitsseminar
200252 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn - Fundamental Topics in Cognitive Science + Colloquium
540012 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Perception and Neuroaesthetics
Winter term 2023
180150 VO MEi:CogSci Cognitive Science Lecture Series
200095 VU Kognitionspsychologie und Neurowissenschaften
200195 SE Masterarbeitsseminar
540012 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Neuroaesthetics: beauty, attraction, and the arts
Summer term 2023
200166 PR Forschungsorientiertes Praktikum
200219 SE Masterarbeitsseminar
540012 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Neuroaesthetics: beauty, attraction, and the arts
Pelowski, M., Spee, B. T. M., 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.11.012
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, [108016]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108016
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: Biological Sciences, 379(1895), [20220427]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0427
Weingarden, L. S., Pelowski, M., & Kühnapfel, C. (2024). Embodying the photographic image: Charles Marville’s Old Paris and New Paris series. In C. Vial Kayser (Ed.), Art as Experience of the Living Body: An East/West dialogue (1 ed., pp. 261-291). Vernon Press.
Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., Brinkmann, H., Ganster, V., Tanaka, T., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Güldenpfennig, F., Gartus, A., Rosenberg, R., & Pelowski, M. (2024). 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, 42(1), 86-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231160000
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]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107875
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]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230413
Spee, B. T. M., 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]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39865-1
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, 145, [107764]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107764
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]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1192689
Pelowski, M. (2023). Can art have a positive impact on society? EU Research, 37, 38-39. https://issuu.com/euresearcher/docs/artis_eur36_h_res
Pelowski, M., Cotter, K., Specker, E., Fingerhut, J., Trupp, M., & Speidel, K-P. (Accepted/In press). For a Moment, Maybe: 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. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/w594s License CC-By Attribution 4.0 International Disciplines
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, 151. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000523
Fekete, A., Pelowski, M., Specker, E., Brieber, D., Rosenberg, R., & Leder, H. (2023). The Vienna Art Picture System (VAPS): A dataset of 999 paintings and subjective ratings for art and aesthetics research. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(5), 660-671. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000460
Stamkou, E., Rohan, D., Pelowski, M., Lin, Y., & Gelfand, M. J. (Accepted/In press). When rule breaking in art falls flat: Cultural tightness deflates deviant artists’ impact. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Pelowski, M., & Chamberlain, R. (2023). Where Do Artists Come From? A Review of the ‘Typical’ Visually Creative Life and Artistic Brain as a Basis for Discussing Neurodivergence or Neurodegenerative Change. In Art and Neurological Disorders—Illuminating the Intersection of Creativity and the Changing Brain (pp. 25-63). Springer Nature. Current Clinical Neurology
Pelowski, M., Spee, B. T. M., 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 and style changes linked to damage or neurodegenerative disease. Physics of Life Reviews, 43, 32-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2022.07.005
Richard, A., Pelowski, M., & Spee, B. T. M. (Eds.) (2022). Art and Neurological Disorders: Illuminating the Intersection of Creativity and the Changing Brain. (1 ed.) Springer International Publishing. Current Clinical Neurology
Spee, B. T. M., 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, [930293]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.930293
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. [782033]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.782033

Empirically and theoretically capturing and Latent Profile Modelling of our shared ways of responding to art

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

The (brain of the) Artist is present: Comparing brain synchrony and the transformative potential of performance art in an art vs. non-art context

Theresa Demmer (Speaker), Max Schuber (Contributor), Corinna Kühnapfel (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

26 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What did the art mean? A case study of an installation by artist Anselm Kiefer.

Stephanie Miller (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

26 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Entrances In: Priming Strategies to Enhance the Well-being Impact of Art Viewing at the National Gallery, London.

MacKenzie Trupp (Speaker), R. Landau (Contributor), K. Templer-Lewis (Contributor), Aleksandra Igdalova (Contributor), Corinna Kühnapfel (Contributor), Giacomo Bignardi (Contributor), Joerg Fingerhut (Contributor), Rebecca Chamberlain (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

3 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Loveability as an Holistic Approach to Placemaking: the Connection between Uplifting Experiences and Creative Cultural Spaces for Psycho-Spatial Wellbeing

Mizan Rambhoros (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

28 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What is the evidence that art viewing can impact well-being?

MacKenzie Trupp (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

19 Jul 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Societal value of Arts and Culture and the impact on Well-being, Mental Health and Inclusion for all

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

Jun 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

The ARTIS Lab

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Uncovering the Muse? Can we really ‘read’ art to ‘see’ the changing brain—ideas from early work looking into links between neurodegeneration and artistic activity

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

Mar 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Is it the Prime or the Provenance? Investigating art experience with AI and human-generated art using fNIRS

Theresa Rahel Demmer (Speaker), Nina Fasan (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

3 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Welcome to Hell - the influence of intentionally designed gallery lighting on aesthetic experience of The Last Judgement by H.Bosch

Stephanie Miller (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

Sep 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Who benefits from art and how: The role of pleasure, meaning and aesthetic responsiveness in art interventions

MacKenzie Trupp (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

31 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Unlocking the Muse: Insights into if, when, and why artistic creativity might emerge and be applied in the lives of people with Parkinson’s disease

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker) & Blanca Thea Maria Spee (Contributor)

21 Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What are the shared ways we might respond to art? Network Modeling and Latent Class Analysis of both big and small “arts engagements” in gallery and across multiple facets of everyday life

Stephanie Miller (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Welcome to Hell - the influence of gallery lighting on aesthetic experience of The Last Judgement by H. Bosch

Stephanie Miller (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

Feb 2022

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

“critical respondent” dialogue with Alexander Damianisch

Matthew Pelowski (Invited speaker)

28 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Unlocking the Muse: Epidemiological and Empirical insights into why Parkinson’s disease might, or might not, lead to changes in creativity or artistic expression

Matthew Pelowski (Invited speaker)

18 Oct 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

The arts and AI

Matthew Pelowski (Invited speaker)

25 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Embodied and extended sensing, Co-corporeality Seminar

Matthew Pelowski (Invited speaker)

22 Apr 2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

Moving, mundane, beautiful, troubling, enlightening, sublime Network Modeling and Latent class analyses of what makes aesthetic experiences unique or universal for humans... and beyond?

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

2021

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

What can art do? Empirical investigations into our shared art experiences

Matthew Pelowski (Invited speaker)

2020

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Public

From conception to reception – How artistic intentions transform to viewers’ emotions in contemporary art.

Patrick Markey (Speaker), Jane Boddy (Contributor), Matthew Pelowski (Contributor), Eva Specker (Contributor), Felix Haiduk (Contributor), Beatrice Immelmann (Contributor), Paula Ibanez de Aldecoa de Elera (Contributor) & Hillary Jean-Joseph (Contributor)

30 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

New Directions in Empirical Aesthetics. 実験美学の新たな方向性

Helmut Leder (Keynote speaker), Matthew Pelowski (Keynote speaker), Raphael Rosenberg (Keynote speaker), Hideaki Kawabata (Keynote speaker), Eva Specker (Keynote speaker), Hanna Brinkmann (Keynote speaker) & Patrick Markey (Keynote speaker)

7 Mar 2017 → 8 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

All liberals like abstract art except for me

Jon O. Lauring (Contributor), Matthew Pelowski (Contributor), Michael Forster (Speaker), Ron Kupers (Contributor) & Helmut Leder (Contributor)

30 Aug 2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

Accounting for others’ taste: Effect of desired and undesired social groups’ ratings on the appreciation of art

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

All liberals like abstract art except for me

Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Baumgarten Award presentation

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

But what does the brain do to our experience of art? A new integrated model of aesthetic experience

Matthew Pelowski (Speaker)

2016

Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Other

Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology

Liebiggasse 5
1010 Wien

T: +43-1-4277-47112

matthew.pelowski@univie.ac.at