Most cited papers in Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
What are the most cited papers in Aesthetic Perception and Analysis?
The most cited paper in Aesthetic Perception and Analysis is "Why we buy what we buy: A theory of consumption values" (Jagdish N. Sheth, Bruce I. Newman, Barbara L. Gross, 1991), with 4,853 citations. Next come "Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?" (2,922) and "A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body" (2,138).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 512 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why we buy what we buy: A theory of consumption values Jagdish N. Sheth, Bruce I. Newman, Barbara L. Gross · Journal of Business Research | Mar 1991 | 4,853 |
| 2 | Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience? Rolf Reber, Norbert Schwarz, Piotr Winkielman · Personality and Social Psychology Review | Nov 2004 | 2,922 |
| 3 | A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body Paul E. Downing, Yuhong V. Jiang, Miles Shuman et al. · Science | 28 Sep 2001 | 2,138 |
| 4 | A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments Helmut Leder, Benno Belke, Andries Oeberst et al. · British Journal of Psychology | Nov 2004 | 1,947 |
| 5 | Aesthetics and Psychobiology William Blizek, D. E. Berlyne · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1973 | 1,942 |
| 6 | Contour integration by the human visual system: Evidence for a local “association field” David J Field, Anthony J. Hayes, Robert F. Hess · Vision Research | 1993 | 1,646 |
| 7 | Are Product Attribute Beliefs the Only Mediator of Advertising Effects on Brand Attitude? Andrew A. Mitchell, Jerry C. Olson · Journal of Marketing Research | Aug 1981 | 1,488 |
| 8 | The Secrets of Salient Object Segmentation Yin Li, Xiaodi Hou, Christof Koch et al. | Jun 2014 | 1,409 |
| 9 | Attractive Faces Are Only Average Judith H. Langlois, Lori A. Roggman · Psychological Science | Mar 1990 | 1,334 |
| 10 | Assessing dimensions of perceived visual aesthetics of web sites Talia Lavie, Noam Tractinsky · International Journal of Human-Computer Studies | 4 Dec 2003 | 1,333 |
| 11 | Motion, emotion and empathy in esthetic experience David Freedberg, Vittorio Gallese · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 8 Mar 2007 | 1,256 |
| 12 | Natural Versus Urban Scenes Roger S. Ulrich · Environment and Behavior | Sep 1981 | 1,255 |
| 13 | The Cyborg's Dilemma: Progressive Embodiment in Virtual Environments [1] Frank A. Biocca · Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication | 23 Jun 2006 | 1,219 |
| 14 | Activation of the middle fusiform 'face area' increases with expertise in recognizing novel objects L. Gauthier, Michael J. Tarr, Adam W. Anderson et al. · Nature Neuroscience | Jun 1999 | 1,212 |
| 15 | Affective Discrimination of Stimuli That Cannot Be Recognized William Raft Kunst-Wilson, Robert B. Zajonc · Science | Feb 1980 | 1,207 |
| 16 | Face-Specific Processing in the Human Fusiform Gyrus Gregory McCarthy, Aina Puce, John C. Gore et al. · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience | 1997 | 1,164 |
| 17 | Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness Hilke Plaßmann, John P. O’Doherty, Baba Shiv et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 15 Jan 2008 | 1,139 |
| 18 | Studying Aesthetics in Photographic Images Using a Computational Approach Ritendra Datta, Dhiraj Joshi, Jia Li et al. · Lecture notes in computer science | 2006 | 1,121 |
| 19 | Beautiful Faces Have Variable Reward Value Itzhak Aharon, Nancy L. Etcoff, Dan Ariely et al. · Neuron | Nov 2001 | 1,101 |
| 20 | The Transparency of Experience M. G. F. Martin · Mind & Language | Sep 2002 | 1,095 |
| 21 | Full-body illusions and minimal phenomenal selfhood Olaf Blanke, Thomas K. Metzinger · Trends in Cognitive Sciences | 7 Dec 2008 | 1,088 |
| 22 | Attending to the Big Picture: Mood and Global Versus Local Processing of Visual Information Karen Gasper, Gerald L. Clore · Psychological Science | 2002 | 1,086 |
| 23 | The imagery debate: Analogue media versus tacit knowledge. Zenon W. Pylyshyn · Psychological Review | 1981 | 1,068 |
| 24 | Solving the "real" mysteries of visual perception: The world as an outside memory. John O'Regan · Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie | Sep 1992 | 1,013 |
| 25 | Differential Sensitivity of Human Visual Cortex to Faces, Letterstrings, and Textures: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study Aina Puce, Truett Allison, Maryam Asgari et al. · Journal of Neuroscience | 15 Aug 1996 | 1,007 |
| 26 | Objects and attention: the state of the art Brian J. Scholl · Cognition | Jun 2001 | 990 |
| 27 | The Experimental Induction of Out-of-Body Experiences H. Henrik Ehrsson · Science | 23 Aug 2007 | 979 |
| 28 | If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping Valeria I. Petkova, H. Henrik Ehrsson · PLoS ONE | 2 Dec 2008 | 960 |
| 29 | AVA: A large-scale database for aesthetic visual analysis Naila Murray, Luca Marchesotti, Florent Perronnin | Jun 2012 | 952 |
| 30 | Fast Fashion, Sustainability, and the Ethical Appeal of Luxury Brands Annamma Joy, John F. Sherry, Alladi Venkatesh et al. · Fashion Theory | 8 Aug 2012 | 950 |
| 31 | Information processing in visual search: A continuous flow conception and experimental results Charles W. Eriksen, Derek W. Schultz · Perception & Psychophysics | Jul 1979 | 938 |
| 32 | A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, Matthias Bethge · Journal of Vision | Sep 2016 | 935 |
| 33 | Self-report captures 27 distinct categories of emotion bridged by continuous gradients Alan Cowen, Dacher J. Keltner · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 5 Sep 2017 | 922 |
| 34 | The science of art: A neurological theory of aesthetic experience Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran, William Hirstein · PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) | Jun 1999 | 901 |
| 35 | Neural Correlates of Beauty Hideaki Kawabata, Semir Zeki · Journal of Neurophysiology | 8 Mar 2004 | 889 |
| 36 | Feelings-as-Information Theory Norbert Schwarz | 2012 | 879 |
| 37 | Consumption experience, customer value, and subjective personal introspection: An illustrative photographic essay Morris B. Holbrook · Journal of Business Research | 7 Mar 2006 | 875 |
| 38 | Affective image classification using features inspired by psychology and art theory Jana Machajdik, Allan Hanbury | 25 Oct 2010 | 875 |
| 39 | Processing of Social and Monetary Rewards in the Human Striatum Keise Izuma, Daisuke N. Saito, Norihiro Sadato · Neuron | Apr 2008 | 873 |
| 40 | Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity Roger E. Beaty, Yoed Nissan Kenett, Alexander P. Christensen et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 16 Jan 2018 | 869 |
| 41 | Sound attenuation by sculpture R. Martínez‐Sala, J. Sancho, J. V. Sánchez et al. · Nature | 16 Nov 1995 | 869 |
| 42 | The Effect of Conceptual and Perceptual Fluency on Brand Evaluation Angela Yuson Lee, Aparna A. Labroo · Journal of Marketing Research | May 2004 | 861 |
| 43 | Aging and Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces Mara Mather, Laura L. Carstensen · Psychological Science | 20 Aug 2003 | 813 |
| 44 | Measuring visual clutter Ruth E. Rosenholtz, Yuanzhen Li, L. Nakano · Journal of Vision | 16 Aug 2007 | 811 |
| 45 | Body Cues, Not Facial Expressions, Discriminate Between Intense Positive and Negative Emotions Hillel Aviezer, Yaacov Trope, Alexander T. Todorov · Science | 29 Nov 2012 | 808 |
| 46 | From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: Towards a unified theory of musical emotions Patrik N. Juslin · Physics of Life Reviews | 29 May 2013 | 772 |
| 47 | Cognitive determinants of fixation location during picture viewing. Geoffrey R. Loftus, Norman H. Mackworth · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance | 1978 | 768 |
| 48 | Arousal, Mood, and The Mozart Effect William Forde Thompson, E. Glenn Schellenberg, Gabriela Husain · Psychological Science | May 2001 | 763 |
| 49 | Mental imagery: In search of a theory Zenon W. Pylyshyn · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Apr 2002 | 727 |
| 50 | The neural basis of visual body perception Marius V. Peelen, Paul E. Downing · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 20 Jul 2007 | 718 |
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