Dr. Jan Mikuni, BA MA
Mikuni, J., Dehove, M., Dörrzapf, L., Moser, M. K., Resch, B., Böhm, P., Prager, K., Podolin, N., Oberzaucher, E., & Leder, H. (2024). Art in the city reduces the feeling of anxiety, stress, and negative mood: A field study examining the impact of artistic intervention in urban public space on well-being. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 7, Article 100215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100215
Spee, B. T. M., Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Scharnowski, F., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2024). Using Machine Learning to Predict Judgments on Western Visual Art Along Content-Representational and Formal-Perceptual Attributes. PLoS ONE, 19(9), Article e0304285. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304285, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304285
Mikuni, J., Spee, B. T. M., Forlani, G., Leder, H., Scharnowski, F., Nakamura, K., Watanabe, K., Kawabata, H., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2024). Cross-Cultural Comparison of Beauty Judgments in Visual Art Using Machine Learning Analysis of Art Attribute Predictors Among Japanese and German Speakers. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 15948. https://doi.org/10.1038/S41598-024-65088-Z
Spee, B. T. M., Arato, J., Mikuni, J., Tran, U., 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, 15, 01-15. Article 1192565. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1192565
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
Chana, K., Mikuni, J., Schnebel, A., & Leder, H. (2023). Reading in the city: mobile eye-tracking and evaluation of text in an everyday setting. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1205913. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1205913
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), Article 12966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39865-1
Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Kawabata, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2023). Symmetry as an Inter-Cultural Feature Constituting Beauty: Implicit and Explicit Beauty Evaluation of Visual Symmetry in Japan. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 42(2), 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231183377
Brinkmann, H., Mikuni, J., Dare, Z., Kawabata, H., Leder, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2023). Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters when Viewing Art and Non-Art. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17, 398-411.
Fekete, A., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Trupp, M., & Leder, H. (2023). When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000641
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
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), Article e0266020. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266020
Pelowski, M., Cabbai, G., Brinkmann, H., Mikuni, J., Hegelmaier, L., Forster, M., Rosenberg, R., & 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. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000302
Mikuni, J., Tanaka, T., Shimane, D., Nakamura, K., & Watanabe, K. (2020). Accounting for Private Taste: Facial shape analysis of Attractiveness and Inter-individual Variance. In 2020 12th International Conference on Knowledge and Smart Technology (KST) (pp. 203-206). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/KST48564.2020.9059511
Spee, B. T. M., Ishizu, T., Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Kawabata, H., & Pelowski, M. (2018). Neuropsychopharmacological aesthetics: A theoretical consideration of pharmacological approaches to causative brain study in aesthetics and art. In J. F. Christensen, & A. Gomila (Eds.), The Arts and The Brain: Psychology and Physiology Beyond Pleasure (1. ed., pp. 343-372). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.021
Cross-cultural comparison of emotion recognition in abstract drawings
Rebecca Chamberlain (Speaker), Margot Dehove (Contributor), Jan Mikuni (Contributor), Takumi Tanaka (Contributor), Tomohiro Ishizu (Contributor), Corinna Kühnapfel (Speaker), Helmut Leder (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)
Aug 2022
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Event Detection Algorithms and Data Quality
Zoya Dare (Speaker), Hanna Brinkmann (Speaker), Jan Mikuni (Speaker), Hideaki Kawabata (Speaker), Helmut Leder (Speaker) & Raphael Rosenberg (Speaker)
20 Aug 2019
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science