Cognition and Visual Art
2018
With Johan De Smedt
Cognition and Visual Art, The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Cognition_and_Visual_Art.pdf2014
With Justin L. Barrett and Rafael Wlodarski
"I Just Don't Get It": Perceived Artists' Intentions Affect Art Evaluations, Empirical Studies of the Arts
I_just_don_t_get_it_Perceived_artists_i.pdf2012
Ambiguous Artefacts: Towards a Cognitive Anthropology of Art, D.Phil. Dissertation, Chapter 1, University of Oxford
Thesis_abstract-merged.pdf2011
With Justin L. Barrett
Cognitive Constraints on the Visual Arts: An Empirical Study of the Role of Perceived Intentions in Appreciation Judgements, Journal of Cognition and Culture
Cognitive_constraints_on_the_visual_arts.pdfMedia
Sample Stimulus used in Jucker et al. (2014)
Is it art? Study participants who were told that the photograph above was created intentionally were more likely to call it a 'work of art' than participants who were told it was created accidentally. This suggests that people use the artist's intention to decide what is a work of art. Read more in Jucker et al. (2014) above.
Interview with Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Broadcasted by PBS, Closer to Truth TV series, 2021