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Marcos Nadal is affiliated with the University of the Balearic Islands in Spain and specializes primarily in the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Sensory Systems, and Visual Arts and Performing Arts.

Their work broadly covers topics such as Aesthetic Perception and Analysis, Multisensory Perception and Integration, Color Perception and Design, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, Art History and Market Analysis, and Neuroscience and Music Perception.

Frequent venues for publication include:

  • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • British Journal of Psychology
  • Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
  • Physics of Life Reviews
  • Empirical Studies of the Arts

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Nadal include:

  • Psychological and neural responses to architectural interiors, 2020, Cortex
  • A Farewell to Art: Aesthetics as a Topic in Psychology and Neuroscience, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • There are no aesthetic emotions: Comment on Menninghaus et al. (2019), 2020, Psychological Review
  • The nature of beauty: behavior, cognition, and neurobiology, 2020, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
  • A Set of 200 Musical Stimuli Varying in Balance, Contour, Symmetry, and Complexity: Behavioral and Computational Assessments, 2020, Behavior Research Methods

Some of the researchers with whom Nadal frequently collaborates include:

  • Martin Skov
  • Oshin Vartanian
  • Helmut Leder
  • Anjan Chatterjee
  • Ana Clemente

Best Publications

  • 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

  • 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

  • Predicting beauty: fractal dimension and visual complexity in art.

    A. Forsythe;M. Nadal;N. Sheehy;C. J. Cela-Conde

  • 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

  • Sex-related similarities and differences in the neural correlates of beauty

    Camilo J. Cela-Conde;Francisco J. Ayala;Enric Munar;Fernando Maestú

  • Towards a framework for the study of the neural correlates of aesthetic preference.

    Marcos Nadal;Enric Munar;Miquel Angel Capó;Jaume Rosselló

  • Visual Complexity and Beauty Appreciation: Explaining the Divergence of Results:

    Marcos Nadal;Enric Munar;Gisèle Marty;Camilo José Cela-Conde

  • The neural foundations of aesthetic appreciation.

    Camilo J. Cela-Conde;Luigi Agnati;Joseph P. Huston;Francisco Mora

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

    David Brieber;Marcos Nadal;Helmut Leder

  • Preference for Curvature: A Historical and Conceptual Framework.

    Gerardo Gómez-Puerto;Enric Munar;Marcos Nadal

  • The Copenhagen Neuroaesthetics conference: Prospects and pitfalls for an emerging field

    Marcos Nadal;Marcus T. Pearce

  • Computerized measures of visual complexity.

    Penousal Machado;Juan Romero;Marcos Nadal;Antonino Santos

  • Psychological and neural responses to architectural interiors.

    Alexander Coburn;Alexander Coburn;Oshin Vartanian;Yoed N. Kenett;Marcos Nadal

  • The experience of art: Insights from neuroimaging

    Marcos Nadal

  • Common Visual Preference for Curved Contours in Humans and Great Apes

    Enric Munar;Gerardo Gómez-Puerto;Josep Call;Josep Call;Marcos Nadal

  • Electrophysiological correlates of looking at paintings and its association with art expertise.

    C.Y. Pang;M. Nadal;J.S. Müller-Paul;R. Rosenberg

  • A Farewell to Art: Aesthetics as a Topic in Psychology and Neuroscience.

    Martin Skov;Martin Skov;Marcos Nadal

  • The world can look better: enhancing beauty experience with brain stimulation

    Zaira Cattaneo;Carlotta Lega;Albert Flexas;Marcos Nadal

  • A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity.

    Guido Corradi;Erick G. Chuquichambi;Juan Ramón Barrada;Ana Clemente

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Leder
Helmut Leder University of Vienna
Zaira Cattaneo
Zaira Cattaneo University of Milano-Bicocca
Anjan Chatterjee
Anjan Chatterjee University of Pennsylvania
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Christoph Klein
Christoph Klein University of Freiburg
Juha Silvanto
Juha Silvanto University of Surrey
Tomaso Vecchi
Tomaso Vecchi University of Pavia
Francisco J. Ayala
Francisco J. Ayala University of California, Irvine
Marta Torrens
Marta Torrens Autonomous University of Barcelona
Margalida Gili
Margalida Gili University of the Balearic Islands

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