Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Dehove, M., Mikuni, J., Podolin, N., Moser, M.K., Resch, B., Dörrzapf, L., Böhm, P., Prager, K., Leder, H., & Oberzaucher, E. (2024).
  Exploring the Influence of Artistic and Green Urban Interventions on Attraction and Well-being: An Empirical Field Experiment.
  Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1409086.
  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1409086
• Mikuni, J., Dehove, M., Dörrzapf, L., Moser, M.K., Resch, B., Böhm, P., ... & Leder, H. (2024).
  Art in the City Reduces the Feeling of Anxiety, Stress, and Negative Mood: A field study examining the impact of artistic intervention in urban public space on well-being.
  Wellbeing, Space and Society, 100215.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100215
• Mikuni, J.*, Spee, B. T.*, Forlani, G.*, Leder, H., Schanowski, F., Nakamura, K., Watanabe, K., Kawabata, H., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D.** (2024).
  Cross-cultural comparison of beauty judgments in visual art using machine learning analysis of art attribute predictors among Japanese and German speakers.
  Scientific Reports, 14(1), 15948.
  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-65088-z
• Spee, B. T., Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Scharnowski, F., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2024).
  Using machine learning to predict judgments on Western Visual art along content-representational and formal-perceptual attributes.
  PLoS One, 19(9), e0304285.
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304285
• Spee, B. T., Arato, J., Mikuni, J., Tran, U. S., Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2024).
  The dynamics of experiencing Gestalt and Aha in cubist art: pupil responses and art evaluations show a complex interplay of task, stimuli content, and time course.
  Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1192565.
  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1192565
• Chana, K., Mikuni, J., Schnebel, A., & Leder, H. (2023).
  Reading in the city: mobile eye-tracking and evaluation of text in an everyday setting.
  Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1205913.
  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1205913
• Fekete, A., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Trupp, M. D., & Leder, H. (2023).
  When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum.
  Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
  https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/aca0000641
• Spee, B. T., Mikuni, J., Leder, H., Scharnowski, F., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2023).
  Machine learning revealed symbolism, emotionality, and imaginativeness as primary predictors of creativity evaluations of western art paintings.
  Scientific Reports, 13(1), 12966.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39865-1
• Leder, H.*, Mikuni, J.*, Kawabata, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2023).
  Symmetry as an inter-cultural feature constituting beauty: Implicit and explicit beauty evaluation of visual symmetry in Japan.
  Empirical Studies of the Arts, 02762374231183377.
  https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231183377
• Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., Brinkmann, H., Ganster, V., Tanaka, T., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Güldenpfennig, D., Gartus, A., Rosenberg, R., & Pelowski, M. (2023).
  How do we move in front of art? How does this relate to art experience? Linking movement, eye tracking, emotion, and evaluations in a gallery-like setting.
  Empirical Studies of the Arts, 42(1), 86-146.
  https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231160000
• Brinkmann, H.*, Mikuni, J.*, Dare, Z., Kawabata, H., Leder, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2023).
  Cultural diversity in oculometric parameters when viewing art and non-art.
  Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000563
• Spee, B. T., Pelowski, M., Arato, J., Mikuni, J., Tran, U. S., Eisenegger, C., & Leder, H. (2022).
  Social reputation influences on liking and willingness-to-pay for artworks: a multimethod design investigating choice behavior along with physiological measures and motivational factors.
  PLoS One, 17(4), e0266020.
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266020
• Mikuni, J., Specker, E., Pelowski, M., Leder, H., & Kawabata, H. (2022).
  Is there a general “art fatigue” effect? A cross-paradigm, cross-cultural study of repeated art viewing in the laboratory.
  Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(2), 343.
  https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000396
• Pelowski, M., Cabbai, G., Brinkmann, H., Mikuni, J., Hegelmaier, L. M., Forster, M., ... & Leder, H. (2020).
  The kitsch switch—or (when) do experts dislike Thomas Kinkade art? A study of time-based evaluation changes in top-down versus bottom-up assessment.
  Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000302
• Spee, B., Ishizu, T., Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Kawabata, H., & Pelowski, M. (2018).
  Neuropsychopharmacological aesthetics: A theoretical consideration of pharmacological approaches to causative brain study in aesthetics and art.
  Progress in Brain Research, 237, 343-372.
  https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2018.03.021