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Helmut Leder publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helmut Leder sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 210 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Helmut Leder D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Helmut Leder sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Helmut Leder is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily spans neuroscience and psychology, with significant contributions to cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, and social psychology. They also have a presence in studies involving visual arts and performing arts as well as sensory systems.

The scientist's main research topics include aesthetic perception and analysis, color perception and design, creativity in education and neuroscience, multisensory perception and integration, olfactory and sensory function studies, urban green space and health, and visual attention and saliency detection.

Their publication record features articles in various peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Empirical Studies of the Arts
  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers by Helmut Leder highlight a range of specific research areas and years of publication:

  • "The display makes a difference: A mobile eye tracking study on the perception of art before and after a museum's rearrangement" (2020) published in Journal of Eye Movement Research
  • "Warm, lively, rough? Assessing agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks" (2020) published in PLoS ONE
  • "The Vienna Art Picture System (VAPS): A data set of 999 paintings and subjective ratings for art and aesthetics research." (2022) published in Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • "Does beauty capture the eye, even if it's not (overtly) adaptive? A comparative eye-tracking study of spontaneous attention and visual preference with VAST abstract art" (2020) published in Acta Psychologica
  • "What Experts Appreciate in Patterns: Art Expertise Modulates Preference for Asymmetric and Face-Like Patterns" (2020) published in Symmetry

Helmut Leder works often with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Matthew Pelowski
  • Jan Mikuni
  • Eva Specker
  • Raphaël Rosenberg
  • Margot Dehove

Best Publications

  • A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments.

    Helmut Leder;Helmut Leder;Benno Belke;Andries Oeberst;M. Dorothee Augustin

  • When inverted faces are recognized: the role of configural information in face recognition.

    Helmut Leder;Vicki Bruce

  • Ten years of a model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments : The aesthetic episode – Developments and challenges in empirical aesthetics

    Helmut Leder;Marcos Nadal

  • Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture

    Oshin Vartanian;Gorka Navarrete;Gorka Navarrete;Anjan Chatterjee;Lars Brorson Fich

  • Entitling art: Influence of title information on understanding and appreciation of paintings.

    Helmut Leder;Claus-Christian Carbon;Ai-Leen Ripsas

  • Move me, astonish me… delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of top-down and bottom-up processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective, evaluative, and neurophysiological correlates.

    Matthew Pelowski;Patrick S. Markey;Michael Forster;Gernot Gerger

  • Art in Time and Space: Context Modulates the Relation between Art Experience and Viewing Time

    David Brieber;Marcos Nadal;Helmut Leder;Raphael Rosenberg

  • Neuroaesthetics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience.

    Marcus T. Pearce;Dahlia W. Zaidel;Oshin Vartanian;Martin Skov

  • How art is appreciated.

    Helmut Leder;Gernot Gerger;Stefan G. Dressler;Alfred Schabmann

  • Local and Relational Aspects of Face Distinctiveness

    Helmut Leder;Vicki Bruce

  • Visualizing the Impact of Art: An Update and Comparison of Current Psychological Models of Art Experience

    Matthew Pelowski;Patrick S. Markey;Jon O. Lauring;Helmut Leder

  • Architectural design and the brain: effects of ceiling height and perceived enclosure on beauty judgments and approach-avoidance decisions

    Oshin Vartanian;Gorka Navarrete;Anjan Chatterjee;Lars Brorson Fich

  • Just how stable are stable aesthetic features? Symmetry, complexity, and the jaws of massive familiarization

    Pablo P.L. Tinio;Helmut Leder

  • What makes an art expert? Emotion and evaluation in art appreciation

    Helmut Leder;Gernot Gerger;David Brieber;Norbert Schwarz

  • Dimensions in appreciation of car interior design

    Helmut Leder;Helmut Leder;Claus-Christian Carbon;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Configural features in the context of upright and inverted faces.

    Helmut Leder;Gian Candrian;Oswald Huber;Vicki Bruce

  • Cognitive Fluency: High-Level Processing Dynamics in Art Appreciation

    Benno Belke;Helmut Leder;Tilo Strobach;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Art expertise: a study of concepts and conceptual spaces

    M. Dorothee Augustin;Helmut Leder

  • Context effects on emotional and aesthetic evaluations of artworks and IAPS pictures.

    Gernot Gerger;Helmut Leder;Alexandra Kremer

  • In the white cube: museum context enhances the valuation and memory of art.

    David Brieber;Marcos Nadal;Helmut Leder

  • The Repeated Evaluation Technique (RET). A method to capture dynamic effects of innovativeness and attractiveness

    Claus-Christian Carbon;Claus-Christian Carbon;Helmut Leder

  • Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

    Helmut Leder;Gernot Gerger;Stefan G. Dressler;Alfred Schabmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Claus-Christian Carbon
Claus-Christian Carbon University of Bamberg
Ulrich Ansorge
Ulrich Ansorge University of Vienna
Marcos Nadal
Marcos Nadal University of the Balearic Islands
Anjan Chatterjee
Anjan Chatterjee University of Pennsylvania
Vicki Bruce
Vicki Bruce Newcastle University
Oshin Vartanian
Oshin Vartanian University of Toronto
Arthur M. Jacobs
Arthur M. Jacobs Freie Universität Berlin
Stefan R. Schweinberger
Stefan R. Schweinberger Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Norbert Schwarz
Norbert Schwarz University of Southern California
Claus Lamm
Claus Lamm University of Vienna

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