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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
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
Winter term 2022
200205 PR Forschungsorientiertes Praktikum
200243 SE Masterarbeitsseminar
540012 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Neuroaesthetics: beauty, attraction, and the arts
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.
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
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., 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
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, 13, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.895985
Mikuni, J., Specker, E., Pelowski, M., Leder, H., & Kawabata, H. (2022). 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, 16(2), 343-360. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000396
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. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000320
Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., Brinkmann, H., Ganster, V., Tanaka, T., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Güldenpfennig, F., Gartus, A., Rosenberg, R., & Pelowski, M. (2022, Apr 29). How do we move in front of art? How does this relate to art experience? Linking movement, eye tracking, emotion, and evaluations in an ecologically-valid gallery setting. Empirical Studies of the Arts. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/kx86d
Spee, B. T. M., Pelowski, M., Arato, J., Mikuni, J., Tran, U., Eisenegger, C., & Leder, H. (2022). Social reputation influences on liking and willingness-topay for artworks: A multimethod design investigating choice behavior along with physiological measures and motivational factors. PLoS ONE, 17(4), [e0266020]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266020
Fekete, A., Specker, E., Pelowski, M., Brieber, D., & Rosenberg, R. (2022). 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. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000460
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]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.786977
Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2022). But, What Actually Happens When We Engage with “Art”? In A. Chatterjee, & E. Cardilo (Eds.), Brain, beauty, and art: essays bringing neuroaesthetics into focus (pp. 13–C3.P17). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197513620.003.0003
Specker, E., & Pelowski, M. (2022). How can engagement in the arts effect our emotional lives?, In Creativity, Emotions, and the Arts: Research, Application, and Impact. Fundación Botín Report https://www.centrobotin.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ARTES_EMOCIONES_Y_CREATIVIDAD_INVESTIGACION_APLICACION_Y_RESULTADOS_INFORME_FUNDACION_BOTIN_2022_EN.pdf#page=74
Reymond, C., Vornhagen, J., Pelowski, M., Opwis, K., & Mekler, E. D. (Accepted/In press). Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 151.
Pelowski, M., Specker, E., Boddy, J., Immelmann, B., Haiduk, F., Spezie, G., Ibanez de Aldecoa de Elera, 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. https://doi.org/https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/aca0000436
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. https://doi.org/10.1002/mar.21523
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]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118147

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

“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

Wächtergasse 1
1010 Wien
Room: 306

T: +43-1-4277-47112

matthew.pelowski@univie.ac.at