Empirical Aesthetics
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I am interested in both the biological and cognitive foundations of sensory evaluation and aesthetic experience, and how they contribute to the collective dynamics of popularity and opinion formation in art. I study these processes experimentally in the lab, measuring aesthetic preferences in controlled settings, and in the real-world, using big data approaches from available datasets, such as Spotify and YouTube.
Manuel Anglada Tort
Lecturer in Psychology
I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London and Co-Director of the MSc in Music, Mind, and Brain (MMB) and MMB Research Group. I am interested in the psychological and cultural foundations of complex human behaviours, such as music and art, and the role they play in society and cultural evolution. My research combines methods from cross-cultural psychology, neuroscience, machine learning, computational music cognition, large-scale online experiments, and big data.
