Although human preference for beauty is common and compelling in daily life, it remains unknown whether such preference is essentially subserved by social cognitive demands or natural tendency towards beauty encoded in the human mind intrinsically. Here we demonstrate experimentally that humans automatically exhibit preference for visual and moral beauty without explicit cognitive efforts. Usin...

extended abstract 1. introduction city is a living creature formed through the interaction of different forces in unique substantiality. one of the main aspects of each city is its landscape; urban landscape is the experience of people as the members of society. landscape is an objective and subjective phenomenon that is the part of peoples’ nature in a city. in fact, the process of landscape p...

nowadays, the aims for assessing visual quality of landscape are to define and determine certain criteria and factors that can be used for conservation, rehabilitation and renovation of landscapes as well as determining whether a landscape is aesthetically appropriate or not. by this way, landscapes with aesthetic values are conserved and the rest are amended. analyzing the relations between vi...

This study examines the microclimate pattern and related spatial perception of urban green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) management landscape, using rain gardens as a case study. It investigates relationship between different garden design factors, such scale, depth, planting design, their effects on patterns human perception. Taking an area in Blacksburg, Virginia, site, twelve scenarios are...

tall buildings despite their different features and impacts are just defined by their height. the main problem of defining tall buildings in cities in terms of urban landscape is that this definition does not have an appropriate relativity, and only includes the investigation of tall buildings based on their height. applying the criteria for locating, architecture and height of tall buildings i...

Visual complexity has been known to be a significant predictor of preference for artistic works for some time. The first study reported here examines the extent to which perceived visual complexity in art can be successfully predicted using automated measures of complexity. Contrary to previous findings the most successful predictor of visual complexity was Gif compression. The second study exa...

Beauty is described by notions such as attractiveness, loveliness, exquisiteness, and splendor, while human-beings experience beauty in response to visual and auditory stimuli as embedded in open systems that co-evolve with the environment in which they are immersed (Cook et al., 2014). Shared experiences of beauty are considered as exceptionally intense forms of communication, thereby connecti...

The nature of beauty has been debated in philosophy for thousands of years. Recently, cognitive neuroscientists have sought to elucidate this issue by exploring the neural basis for the experience of beauty. However, the neural representations of beauty remain poorly understood, especially regarding whether various forms of beauty, such as the beauty of faces and the beauty of art, share a comm...