Ana Clemente
Biographic Data
| ID | 5709510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ana Clemente |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ana |
| FAMILY NAME | Clemente |
| SIGNATURE | CLEMENTE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0460-6793 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Non-Linear Relationships Between Creativity Ratings of Musical Improvisations and Melodic Complexity
Although objective, automated measures of verbal creativity have shown promise by correlating well with subjective creativity ratings, objective measures of musical creativity remain underexplored. This study investigated whether melodic complexity – specifically the Lempel-Ziv complexity of pitch sequences – is related to perceived musical creativity in improvisations. We further investigated whether this relationship is affected by participants…
Explaining the curvature effect
Commentary on Friedman et al. (2024)
It is typically assumed in the empirical aesthetics literature that generalizable abstract stimulus attributes like familiarity, fluency, and complexity drive preferences. This general nature means that they can, at least in principle, apply to any stimulus regardless of its characteristics and sensory modality. However, most studies in this tradition are restricted to group-level trends and particular stimulus properties. Therefore, they say not…
Dynamic complexity in audiovisual aesthetics
The appreciation of dance, film, and other temporal art forms relies on the continuous integration of auditory and visual streams. In this study, we investigate how bimodal audiovisual preferences arise from unimodal auditory and visual preferences. To this end, we created and validated the open-resource complexity in audiovisual aesthetics stimulus set (https://osf.io/e5uh9/), consisting of 120 short, dynamic, and abstract auditory, visual and a…
Musical aesthetic sensitivity
Empirical aesthetics has mainly focused on general and simple relations between stimulus features and aesthetic appreciation. Consequently, to explain why people differ so much in what they like and prefer continues to be a challenge for the field. One possible reason is that people differ in their aesthetic sensitivity, that is, the extent to which they weigh certain stimulus features. Studies have shown that people vary substantially in their a…
Relations between perceived affect and liking for melodies and visual designs
Sensory valuation is a fundamental aspect of cognition. It involves assigning hedonic value to a stimulus based on its sensory information considering personal and contextual factors. Hedonic values (e.g., liking) can be deemed affective states that motivate behavior, but the relations between hedonic and affective judgments have yet to be established. To fill this gap, we investigated the relations between stimulus features, perceived affect, an…
A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity
Aesthetic sensitivity has been defined as the ability to recognize and appreciate beauty and compositional excellence, and to judge artistic merit according to standards of aesthetic value. The Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test (VAST) has often been used to assess this ability, but recent research has revealed it has several psychometric problems. Such problems are not easily remedied, because they reflect flawed assumptions inherent to the conce…
Aerobic Training (At) Is More Effective Than Aerobic Plus Resistance Training (At+rt) to Improve Anorexigenic/Orexigenic Factors in Obese Adolescents
A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity
Aesthetic sensitivity has been defined as the ability to recognize and appreciate beauty and compositional excellence, and to judge artistic merit according to standards of aesthetic value. The Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test (VAST) has often been used to assess this ability, but recent research has revealed it has several psychometric problems. Such problems are not easily remedied, because they reflect flawed assumptions inherent to the conce…
Aerobic Training (At) Is More Effective Than Aerobic Plus Resistance Training (At+rt) to Improve Anorexigenic/Orexigenic Factors in Obese Adolescents
Aerobic Training (At) Is More Effective Than Aerobic Plus Resistance Training (At+rt) to Improve Anorexigenic/Orexigenic Factors in Obese Adolescents
A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity
Aesthetic sensitivity has been defined as the ability to recognize and appreciate beauty and compositional excellence, and to judge artistic merit according to standards of aesthetic value. The Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test (VAST) has often been used to assess this ability, but recent research has revealed it has several psychometric problems. Such problems are not easily remedied, because they reflect flawed assumptions inherent to the conce…
Musical aesthetic sensitivity
Empirical aesthetics has mainly focused on general and simple relations between stimulus features and aesthetic appreciation. Consequently, to explain why people differ so much in what they like and prefer continues to be a challenge for the field. One possible reason is that people differ in their aesthetic sensitivity, that is, the extent to which they weigh certain stimulus features. Studies have shown that people vary substantially in their a…
Relations between perceived affect and liking for melodies and visual designs
Sensory valuation is a fundamental aspect of cognition. It involves assigning hedonic value to a stimulus based on its sensory information considering personal and contextual factors. Hedonic values (e.g., liking) can be deemed affective states that motivate behavior, but the relations between hedonic and affective judgments have yet to be established. To fill this gap, we investigated the relations between stimulus features, perceived affect, an…
Dynamic complexity in audiovisual aesthetics
The appreciation of dance, film, and other temporal art forms relies on the continuous integration of auditory and visual streams. In this study, we investigate how bimodal audiovisual preferences arise from unimodal auditory and visual preferences. To this end, we created and validated the open-resource complexity in audiovisual aesthetics stimulus set (https://osf.io/e5uh9/), consisting of 120 short, dynamic, and abstract auditory, visual and a…
Explaining the curvature effect
Commentary on Friedman et al. (2024)
It is typically assumed in the empirical aesthetics literature that generalizable abstract stimulus attributes like familiarity, fluency, and complexity drive preferences. This general nature means that they can, at least in principle, apply to any stimulus regardless of its characteristics and sensory modality. However, most studies in this tradition are restricted to group-level trends and particular stimulus properties. Therefore, they say not…
Non-Linear Relationships Between Creativity Ratings of Musical Improvisations and Melodic Complexity
Although objective, automated measures of verbal creativity have shown promise by correlating well with subjective creativity ratings, objective measures of musical creativity remain underexplored. This study investigated whether melodic complexity – specifically the Lempel-Ziv complexity of pitch sequences – is related to perceived musical creativity in improvisations. We further investigated whether this relationship is affected by participants…
Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Musical (3 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (3 works) · Perception (3 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Color perception and design (2 works)