Assoz. Prof. Matthew Pelowski, PhD
Wintersemester 2025
200143 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn - Fundamental Topics in Cognitive Science
540012 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Perception and Neuroaesthetics
Sommersemester 2025
200009 PS Proseminar zu Allgemeiner Psychologie - Cognitive Foundations of Experience and Behavior
200252 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn - Fundamental Topics in Cognitive Science
540012 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Perception and Neuroaesthetics
Wintersemester 2024
200143 SE Vertiefungsseminar: Geist und Gehirn - Fundamental Topics in Cognitive Science
540012 SE DissertantInnen-Seminar - Perception and Neuroaesthetics



Pelowski, M., Cotter, K., Specker, E., Fingerhut, J., Trupp, M., & Speidel, K. (2024). How lasting is the impact of art? An Exploratory Study of the Incidence and Duration of Art Exhibition-Induced Prosocial Attitude Change Using a 2-Week Daily Diary Method. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Vorzeitige Online-Publikation. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000670




Benvenuti, M., Scorolli, C., Di Iorio, A., Pelowski, M., & Chirico, A. (2024). Emerging technologies in varied domains: Perspectives and future research directions. Computers in Human Behavior, 151, Artikel 108016. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.108016

Leder, H., & Pelowski, M. (2024). Metaphors or mechanism? Predictive coding and a (brief) history of empirical study of the arts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1895), Artikel 20220427. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0427

Weingarden, L. S., Pelowski, M., & Kühnapfel, C. (2024). Embodying the photographic image: Charles Marville’s Old Paris and New Paris series. in C. Vial Kayser (Hrsg.), Art as Experience of the Living Body: An East/West dialogue (1 Aufl., S. 261-291). Vernon Press.

Cabbai, G., Kühnapfel, C., Prinz, J., Kaltwasser, L., Fingerhut, J., & Pelowski, M. (Angenommen/Im Druck). Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.





Stamkou, E., Rohan, D., Pelowski, M., Lin, Y., & Gelfand, M. J. (2024). When rule breaking in art falls flat: Cultural tightness deflates deviant artists’ impact. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 18(1), 14-30. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000650





Home is Where the (He)art Is—Can Repeated Engagement with Real Artwork at Home Improve Wellbeing?

Fekete, A. (Vortragende*r), Specker, E. (Autor*in), Cotter, K. (Autor*in), Trupp, M. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in) & Leder, H. (Autor*in)

15 März 2025

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science




Finding meaning in our mortality through ‘meaningless’ encounters with abstract art

Makri, C. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Juli 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Meaning makes the difference: distinguishing art-experiences in the brain

Demmer, T. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Juli 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Meaning makes the difference: distinguishing art-experiences that make you feel better from those that also make you a better person.

Miller, S. (Vortragende*r), Cotter, K. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Juli 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Reading Emotions in Art: Do autistic traits influence how we perceive emotions through art?

Kim, Y. A. (Vortragende*r), Gülen, E. (Autor*in), Lauer, K. (Autor*in), Demmer, T. (Autor*in), Kühnapfel, C. (Autor*in), Silani, G. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

17 Mai 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Across minds and masterpieces: A multi-brain approach to identifying ‘universal resonance’ to art

Demmer, T. (Vortragende*r), Kim, Y. A. (Autor*in), Schabasser, J. (Autor*in), Liu, T. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Mai 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Art in urban spaces: Assessing the psychological and societal effects of two public art exhibitions in Berlin

Kühnapfel, C. (Vortragende*r), Trupp, M. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in) & Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in)

Mai 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



The prospect and promise of neuromodulation in creativity research

Schmid, F. (Vortragende*r), Angermair, P. (Autor*in), Spee, B. T. M. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in) & Crone, J. S. (Autor*in)

Mai 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


While viewing the artwork, I felt... Using network and latent profile analyses to identify and characterize supraordinate varieties of art-experience.

Miller, S. (Vortragende*r), Cotter, K. (Autor*in), Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Mai 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Classifying Art-Experiences: a new approach to exploring variance in the impact of arts engagement.

Miller, S. (Vortragende*r), Cotter, K. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

März 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


How do we experience art? Using network and latent profile analyses to identify and characterize varieties of art-experience.

Miller, S. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Feb. 2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



A Journey to a matched control condition for art-based beauty appreciation for highly sensitive people

Trupp, M. (Vortragende*r), Igdalova, A. (Autor*in), Spee, B. T. M. (Autor*in), Stamkou, E. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in) & Greven, C. (Autor*in)

2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Art as a predictor of Neurodegenerative disease?

Pelowski, M. (Keynote speaker)

2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The evidence base and the suggested mechanisms for the well-being impacts of engaging visual art—A systematic review

Trupp, M. (Vortragende*r), Howlin, C. (Autor*in), Fekete, A. (Autor*in), Kutsche, J. (Autor*in), Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The Power of the Arts and Culture for People’s Well-being and Inclusion

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Unlocking the transformative power of arts—The ARTIS Lab

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

2024

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Empirically and theoretically capturing and Latent Profile Modelling of our shared ways of responding to art

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

Okt. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


The (brain of the) Artist is present: Comparing brain synchrony and the transformative potential of performance art in an art vs. non-art context

Demmer, T. (Vortragende*r), Schuber, M. (Autor*in), Kühnapfel, C. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

26 Aug. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


What did the art mean? A case study of an installation by artist Anselm Kiefer.

Miller, S. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

26 Aug. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Entrances In: Priming Strategies to Enhance the Well-being Impact of Art Viewing at the National Gallery, London.

Trupp, M. (Vortragende*r), Landau, R. (Autor*in), Templer-Lewis, K. (Autor*in), Igdalova, A. (Autor*in), Kühnapfel, C. (Autor*in), Bignardi, G. (Autor*in), Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in), Chamberlain, R. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

3 Aug. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Art as intervention: On the effects of a street-level gallery exhibition on neighbourhood connectedness, satisfaction, and psychological wellbeing

Kühnapfel, C. (Vortragende*r), Cabbai, G. (Autor*in), Prinz, J. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in) & Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


How do we move in front of art? Classifying visitor movement types in relation to emotion and evaluations in a gallery-like setting

Kühnapfel, C. (Vortragende*r), Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Loveability as an Holistic Approach to Placemaking: the Connection between Uplifting Experiences and Creative Cultural Spaces for Psycho-Spatial Wellbeing

Rambhoros, M. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

28 Juli 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


What is the evidence that art viewing can impact well-being?

Trupp, M. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Vortragende*r)

19 Juli 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



The ARTIS Lab

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

Apr. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public



Is it the Prime or the Provenance? Investigating art experience with AI and human-generated art using fNIRS

Demmer, T. R. (Vortragende*r), Fasan, N. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

3 Feb. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Welcome to Hell - the influence of gallery lighting on aesthetic experience of The Last Judgement by H. Bosch

Miller, S. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Feb. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Welcome to Hell - the influence of intentionally designed gallery lighting on aesthetic experience of The Last Judgement by H.Bosch

Miller, S. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Sept. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Who benefits from art and how: The role of pleasure, meaning and aesthetic responsiveness in art interventions

Trupp, M. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

31 Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Edmund de Belamy and the art of transmitting emotions - exploring perception and emotion sharing in AI generated art using fNIRS

Demmer, T. (Vortragende*r), Fasan, N. (Autor*in), Kühnapfel, C. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in) & Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in)

27 Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Unlocking the Muse: Insights Into If, When, and Why Artistic Creativity Might Emerge, Change, or be Applied as Arts-Based Intervention in People with Parkinson's Disease

Spee, B. T. M. (Vortragende*r), Stap, T. (Autor*in), Crone, J. S. (Autor*in), Koksma, J.-J. (Vortragende*r), Meinders, M. (Autor*in), Darweesh, S. (Autor*in), Bloem, B. R. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

27 Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Can you feel the difference? – A fNIRS study exploring emotional experience and perceived intentionality in AI and human generated art

Demmer, T. (Vortragende*r), Fasan, N. (Autor*in), Kühnapfel, C. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in) & Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Cross-cultural comparison of emotion recognition in abstract drawings

Chamberlain, R. (Vortragende*r), Dehove, M. (Autor*in), Mikuni, J. (Autor*in), Tanaka, T. (Autor*in), Ishizu, T. (Autor*in), Kühnapfel, C. (Vortragende*r), Leder, H. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Empirical aesthetics for installation art: The role of the body in the experience of Tomás Saraceno’s installation artwork “In Orbit”

Kühnapfel, C. (Vortragende*r), Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


How do we move in front of art; How does this impact art experience? A study of mobile eye-and movement- tracking, emotion, and evaluations in an ecologically-valid gallery setting

Kühnapfel, C. (Vortragende*r), Fingerhut, J. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Only one Monet in-person and online: How does an online art intervention compare to an in-gallery art intervention for anxiety and mood?

Trupp, M. (Vortragende*r), ehrlich, L. (Autor*in), Fekete, A. (Autor*in), Specker, E. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Using eye tracking to understand the relationship between visual complexity of geometrical organizations, perceptual fluency, and aesthetic preferences

Beder, D. (Vortragende*r), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in) & Imamoğlu, Ç. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Emotion sharing and empathy through art: A study of artist and viewer connections in behaviour and brain using fNIRS hyperscanning

Demmer, T. (Vortragende*r), Kühnapfel, C. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Juli 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Attractiveness of variety (with lighting)

Pelowski, M. (Keynote speaker)

März 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


AON Working Table on Aesthetic Cognitivism

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



The power of the arts for people’s wellbeing

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


“critical respondent” dialogue with Alexander Damianisch

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

28 Okt. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public



Assessing transformations through art?

Fingerhut, J. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Vortragende*r)

Sept. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Can a brief interaction with online, digital art make you feel better? A comparative study of the impact of online art and culture presentations on mood, state-anxiety, loneliness, and subjective wellbeing

Trupp, M. (Vortragende*r), Bignardi, G. (Autor*in), Specker, E. (Autor*in), Chana, K. K. K. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Sept. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Delivering Art interventions for Wellbeing Online

Trupp, M. (Vortragende*r), Bignardi, G. (Autor*in), Chana, K. K. K. (Autor*in), Specker, E. (Autor*in) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Sept. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



The arts and AI

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

25 Mai 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Embodied and extended sensing, Co-corporeality Seminar

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

22 Apr. 2021

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public





Back behind the Brillo Box: From can we study ‘Art,’ to what can, could, and might art do?

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


What can art do? Empirical investigations into our shared art experiences

Pelowski, M. (Invited speaker)

2020

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public



How can engagement in the arts effect our emotional lives?

Specker, E. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Okt. 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



From conception to reception – How artistic intentions transform to viewers’ emotions in contemporary art.

Markey, P. (Vortragende*r), Boddy, J. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in), Specker, E. (Autor*in), Haiduk, F. (Autor*in), Immelmann, B. (Autor*in), Ibanez de Aldecoa de Elera, P. (Autor*in) & Jean-Joseph, H. (Autor*in)

30 Aug. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Can causative brain manipulation really improve ability to produce art?

Pelowski, M. (Vortragende*r)

Aug. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Is red warm for everyone? Assessing the agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks

Specker, E. (Vortragende*r) & Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

Aug. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


New Directions in Empirical Aesthetics. 実験美学の新たな方向性

Leder, H. (Keynote speaker), Pelowski, M. (Keynote speaker), Rosenberg, R. (Keynote speaker), Kawabata, H. (Keynote speaker), Specker, E. (Keynote speaker), Brinkmann, H. (Keynote speaker) & Markey, P. (Keynote speaker)

7 März 20178 März 2017

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


All liberals like abstract art except for me

Lauring, J. O. (Autor*in), Pelowski, M. (Autor*in), Forster, M. (Vortragende*r), Kupers, R. (Autor*in) & Leder, H. (Autor*in)

30 Aug. 2016

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



All liberals like abstract art except for me

Pelowski, M. (Autor*in)

2016

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere


Baumgarten Award presentation

Pelowski, M. (Keynote speaker)

2016

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragAndere



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