Education
Ph.D. in human evolution and cognition
M.Sc. in human evolution and cognition
M.Phil. in art history
M.Mus. in solo performance
M.A. in music education
B.Mus. in music performance
Research interests
Motivation, learning, and reward
Sensory valuation
Cognitive and affective processing
Creativity and appreciation
Biocultural evolution
Active inference / Hierarchical predictive processing
Multisensory integration
Awards
Frank X. Barron Award 2022 from the American Psychological Association (APA), Division 10: Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
In Press
Clemente, A., Board, F., Pearce, M. T., & Orgs, G. (in press). Dynamic complexity in audiovisual aesthetics. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Clemente, A., Kaplan, T. M., & Pearce, M. T. (in press). Perceptual representations mediate effects of stimulus properties on liking for music. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15106
Penacchio, O. & Clemente, A. (2024). Commentary on Binz et al. (2023): Meta-learning in active inference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2023
Clemente, A., Penacchio, O., Vila-Vidal, M., Pepperell, R., & Ruta, N. (2023). Explaining the curvature effect: Perceptual and hedonic evaluations of visual contour. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000561
2022
Clemente, A., Friberg, A., & Holzapfel, A. (2022). Relations between perceived affect and liking for melodies and visual designs. Emotion. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001141
Clemente, A., Pearce, M. T., & Nadal, M. (2022). Musical aesthetic sensitivity. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(1), 58–73. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000381
2021
Clemente, A., Pearce, M. T., Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (2021). Evaluative judgment across domains: Liking balance, contour, symmetry, and complexity in melodies and visual designs. Brain and Cognition, 151, 105729. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2021.105729
2020
Clemente, A., Vila-Vidal, M., Pearce, M. T., Aguiló, G., Corradi, G., & Nadal, M. (2020). A set of 200 musical stimuli varying in balance, contour, symmetry, and complexity: Behavioral and computational assessments. Behavior Research Methods, 52(4), 1491–1509. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01329-8
Corradi, G., Chuquichambi, E. G., Barrada, J. R., Clemente, A., & Nadal, M. (2020). A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity. British Journal of Psychology, 111(4), 630–658. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12427
Nadal, M., Corradi, G., Barrada, J. R., Clemente, A., & Chuquichambi, E. G. (2020). Reply to Myszkowski et al. (2020): Some matters of fact concerning aesthetic sensitivity. British Journal of Psychology, 111(4), 663–664. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12443
Book chapters
Clemente, A. (2022). Aesthetic sensitivity: Origin and development. In The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics (pp. 240–253). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003008675-13
Open resources
Voice Leading and Harmony (VoiLHa) stimulus set: upcoming
Billboard Melodic Music Dataset (BiMMuDa): upcoming
Complexity in AudioVisual Aesthetics (CAVA) stimulus set: https://osf.io/e5uh9/
MUsical STimulus (MUST) set and toolbox: https://osf.io/bfxz7/
Naturalistic MUsical STimulus (NatMUST) set: https://osf.io/k6gme/
Visual Contour (ViCo) stimulus set and widget: https://osf.io/kv38d/
Theses
Clemente, A. (2021). Aesthetic Sensitivity. Doctoral dissertation in human evolution and cognition, Universitat de les Illes Balears. https://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/673506?locale-attribute=en
Clemente, A. (2017). To Touch or not to Touch: Multimodal Experience in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Sculptures in an Art Gallery. Masters dissertation in human evolution and cognition, Universitat de les Illes Balears. https://dspace.uib.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11201/146222/tfm_2016-17_MCEV_asc735_1340.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y