Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology

Dr. Aenne Brielmann

Aenne Brielmann is a member of the Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology since October 2023. Brielmann’s research has the overarching goal to investigate why people value sensory experiences and how those in turn motivate their behaviors. For example: Why do we spend time and effort to go see the beach, a concert, watch a movie? Over the past years, they have developed a computational model that can predict how much value someone assigns to a given image and how that evaluation changes over time. This computational model also has implications for how we understand boredom (as a relatively lower or decreasing value) and curiosity in the sensory domain. At the HIB, they aim to use these methods and insights to better understand intrinsic motivation, boredom, and curiosity in the context of education.

 

Publications

Journal Articles

  • Nath, S., …, & Brielmann, A. A. (accepted). Relating Objective Complexity, Subjective Complexity and Beauty. [preprintPsychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 
  • Frame, J., Gugliano, M., Brielmann, A. A., Belfi, A. (2023). Your ears don't change what your eyes like: People can independently report the pleasure of music and images [preprint]. JEP:HPP.
  • Pombo, M., Brielmann, A. A., & Pelli, D. G. (2023). The intrinsic variance of beauty judgment. [preprint]. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics [postdoc side-project]
  • Brielmann, A. A*., Buras, N. H., Salingoras, N. A., & Taylor, R. P. (2022). What Happens in Your Brain When You Walk Down the Street? Implications of Architectural Proportions, Biophilia, and Fractal Geometry. Urban Science. [*authors listed in alphabetical order; equal contributions]
  • Brielmann, A. A. & Dayan, P. (2022). A computational model of aesthetic value. Psychological Review. [preprint]
  • Brielmann, A. A., Nuzzo, A., & Pelli, D. G. (2021). Beauty, the feeling. Acta Psychologica.
  • Brielmann, A. A. & Pelli, D. G. (2021). The pleasure of multiple images. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
  • Brielmann, A. A. & Pelli, D. G. (2020). Tracking Two Pleasures. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
  • Brielmann, A. A. & Pelli, D. G. (2019). Intense Beauty Requires Intense Pleasure. Frontiers in Psychology. [PhD project]
  • Belfi, A. M., Vessel, E. A., Brielmann, A. A., Iskib, I., Chatterjee, A., Leder, H., Pelli, D. G., Starr, G. G. (2019). Dynamics of aesthetic experience are reflected in the default-mode network. NeuroImage. 
  • Brielmann, A. A. & Pelli, D. G. (2018). Aesthetics. Current Biology.
  • Brielmann, A. A., Vale, L., & Pelli, D. G. (2017). Beauty at a glance. The experience and pleasure of beauty do not depend on exposure duration. Journal of Vision.
  • Brielmann, A. A., & Pelli, D. G. (2017). Beauty requires thought: The experience of beauty is selectively impaired by cognitive tasks. Current Biology
  • Stolarova, M., Brielmann, A.A., Wolf, C., Rinker, T., & Baayen, H. (2016). Early Vocabulary in Relation to Gender, Bilingualism, Type, and Duration of Childcare. Advances in Cognitive Psychology
  • Brielmann, A. A., Gaetano, J., & Stolarova, M. (2015). Man, You Might Look Like a Woman—If a Child Is Next to You. Advances in Cognitive Psychology. 
  • Brielmann, A. A. & Spering, M. (2015). Bribing the eye: expected reward modulates smooth pursuit eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Psychophysics. 
  • Brielmann, A. A. & Stolarova, M. (2015). Does it matter how you ask? Self-reported emotions to need-of-help and social context depictions. BMC Psychology. [BSc follow-up project]
  • Stolarova, M., Wolf, C., Rinker, T., & Brielmann, A.A. (2014) How to assess and compare inter-rater reliability, agreement and correlation of ratings: an exemplary analysis of mother-father and parent-teacher expressive vocabulary rating pairs. Frontiers in Psychology. 
  • Brielmann, A. A., Buelthoff, I., Armann, R. (2014). Looking at faces from different angles: Europeans fixate different features in Asian and Caucasian faces. Vision Research
  • Stolarova, M. & Brielmann, A. A. (2014). Does anyone need help? Age and gender effects on children's ability to recognize need-of-help. Frontiers in psychology. 
  • Brielmann, A. A. & Stolarova, M. (2014). A New Standardized Stimulus Set for Studying Need-of-Help Recognition (NeoHelp). PLOS ONE.

Preprints

  • Brielmann, A. A., Dayan, P, & Berentelg, M. (under review). Modeling individual aesthetic judgments over time. [preprintProceedings of the Royal Society B.

Book Chapters

 

Brielmann, A. A. & Dayan, P. (in press). Aesthetic boredom. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Bordeom. Bieleke, M., Wolff, W., & Martarelli, C. (Editors)

 

Brielmann, A. A. (2022). Top-down processes in art experience. In: The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics, Nadal, M. & Skov, M. (Editors)

Brielmann, A. A. (2021). Empirical Aesthetics. In: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Fieser, J. & Dowden, B. (Editors)

Curriculum Vitae

10/2023 - now
Postdoc

Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, Tübingen, Germany

08/2020 - 07/2023
Postdoc

Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany 

01/2020 - 07/2020
Postdoc

New York University

01/2020
PhD Psychology

New York University

02/2015
MSc Psychology

University of Konstanz

02/2014
BSc Psychology

University of Konstanz