When we're not in the office or running studies in the lab or field we do like to hang out outside of work (or in this case struggle to hang on to a bouldering wall)

How do urban aesthetics influence our thinking and wellbeing? 🌆 In the lecture series Future Thinking, Jan Mikuni shared some insights from ongoing work of our lab as well as her own work in the WWTF project "Urban Intervention with Art in Public Space". tiny.cc/b2v7001

Congratulations to Evalabs‘s Eva Specker who successfully defended her Habilitation this January! 🎉

Building on Mikuni et al. (2024) and recently published, discover how our art parklet influences wellbeing in the lab. Spoiler: Effects vary significantly, but art in urban environment seems to have a distinct impact. More on this WWTF funded study here: shorturl.at/Vj4Zu

Ultrasound neurostimulation allows for the precise stimulation of brain areas. However, the effect of gravity on the brain might lead to a yet unknown factor of uncertainty. We address this in our recent letter to Brain Stimulation: 10.1016/j.brs.2025.02.013

Excited to announce my move to Liverpool Hope University! Lots to do, clearly sleepless, but priorities first: We offer a new MSc program in #cogition and #aesthetics, and I know it'll be great. Spread the word 🙌 hope.ac.uk/postgraduate/p…

The Evalab is losing its Eva. While we are sad to see her go and leave Vienna for Tübingen, we celebrated Eva's new professor position Austrian style (huge portion of Salzburger Nockerl). We wish her all the best for the future!

While we sadly had to say goodbye to Eva in the EVAlabs, two new people will have the chance to say hello to her at her new lab in Tübingen. iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karrier…

Last week we felt a bit down, so we went to the ALBERTINA Museum to see the exhibition 'Matthew Wong -- Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a last resort'. While the lives if both artists may not have been the happiest, we for sure felt better after seeing their art.

Last September we celebrated the EVALabs' 20th anniversary, now we finally have some photos of the event to share 📸 Chris Valuch Head over to our lab website to see more eva.univie.ac.at

🥂🎓 Congratulations to Akshay Mendhakar who successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Text mining as an assistive tool to improve aesthetic reading experience in English as a foreign language" yesterday! 🎉🥂 ELITnetwork

JOB ALERT! 2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a FWF funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults. Find out more here: artislab.org/projects/asd...

Do aesthetic experiences require real sensory input, or can mental imagery evoke them just as powerfully? Our study shows that vivid mental imagery alone can trigger aesthetic experiences nearly indistinguishable from those caused by real sensory input! doi.org/10.1016/j.isci…

Today we skipped our lab meeting and went to Foto Arsenal instead, a wonderful new museum for photography in Vienna's 3rd district. 📸

Last week we went on a little lab retreat. We stayed at the beautiful Reichenau an der Rax. We had food prepared by our amazing chefs Helmut, Jan, and Kirren. We discussed future career plans of our PhD students in the garden and around the fire. We all had a beautiful time ❤

Can you judge a book by its cover? Turns out—yes, and it sticks with you. 📚✨ Our new article explores how text + image features on book covers affect memory and aesthetic judgement—using Italian novels as part of a collaboration with Università di Verona doi.org/10.3390/litera…

Our PhD student Franz is looking for 2 Vienna-based summer interns to help with his study on the role of the dopamine system on cognitive flexibility and creativity. 🎨 See below for more info (in German) and get in touch with Franz directly! 👨‍🔬

New Interview: From anesthetic to party drug to potential antidepressant: Julia Sophia Crone and Marie Spies discuss promises and pitfalls of using ketamine as an intervention for depression. In print: shorturl.at/WwXoc neurocognition.org/news/

We are looking for German speaking participants for a study on communication of emotions through art and text. See image below or the link for more info: univie.questionpro.eu/t/AB3u5rNZB3wB…

Our dear Margot is leaving us for a research stay in the UK through the OeAD Marietta Blau scholarship. Yesterday we said goodbye with lots of laughter (although we are sad to see her go) and one of Margot's favourite things in Austria (Laugenecke from Billa)