Aenne Brielmann
I am a Lecturer in Psychology at Liverpool Hope University. I received my BSc. and MSc. in Psychology from the University of Konstanz (Germany) and my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from NYU (USA). My research focuses on understanding why people value sensory experiences, including the arts, and how this influences their decision making.
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Interests
My primary research interest lies in empirical aesthetics, i.e., research on why we find pleasure in mere sensory percepts, and in particular its relationship with reward-learning and psychophysics. The guiding question of my work is: Why do people value sensory experiences - sights, music, haptic impressions... - what is that value really worth - to our brain, our identity -, and what are they willing to pay/sacrifice for it? My recent work has been heavily focused on integrating modern algorithms from computer science with experimental methods from psychology and insights from practicing artists and architects to find an answer.