13: Art or Nart? [AI Predicts Art Preferences]

Libby and Ruka use their artificial artificial intelligence to discuss how actual artificial intelligence helps researchers understand the ways the human brain values art. Celebrate their first in-person recording in eight episodes!

Key Words

abstract, art preference, artificial intelligence (AI), association cortex, color field, cubism, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), impressionism, internal review board (IRB), lateral prefrontal cortex (lPFC), mechanical Turk, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), neural network, posterior parietal cortex, prefrontal cortex (PFC), preprint, prepublication, valence, value, visual cortex

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References and Resources

• Aesthetic preference for art emerges from a weighted integration over hierarchically structured visual features in the brain

  • “This article is a preprint and has not been certified by peer review”

• Do you like weird art? Blame your brain

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Bushwick Tarantella by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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