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Ruta, N., Bellanger, Z. & Wagemans, J. (2025) Liking For Comic Style Mediates Perceived Event Duration [in preparation]

2025

Ruta*, N., Schino*, G., Wolfe, B., Iosifyan, M. (2025) Ready-made bodily sensations. Scientific Reports 15, 30223. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-14061-5 

De Winter*, S., Ruta*, N., Damiano, C., & Wagemans, J. (2025). Art has no gender, only gender bias. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000799 

2024

Ganczarek, J., Pietras, K., Cox, R. F. A., & Ruta, N. (2024). Balancing art: The effect of paintings’ conceptual ambiguities on postural control. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000717 link to preprint

2023

Munar, E., Chuquichambi, E. G., Ruta, N., Dorado, A., Rey, C., & Pepperell, R. (2023). Preference for curvature in paintings extends to museum context. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000601 

Ruta, N., Ganczarek, J., Pietras, K.,  Burleigh, A., Pepperell, R. (2023) Non-metric distance judgements are influenced by image projection geometry and field of view. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology; doi:10.1177/17470218231164351

Clemente, A., Penacchio, O., Vila-Vidal, M., Pepperell, R. Ruta, N. (2023) Explaining the curvature effect. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts; doi:10.1037/aca0000561

Ruta, N., Vañó, J., Pepperell, R., Corradi, G. B., Chuquichambi, E. G., Rey, C., & Munar, E. (2023). Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(3), 307–321. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000395

2022

Ruta, N. Burleigh, A. Pepperell, R. (2022) Space and Scale in Medieval Painting Reflects Imagination and Perception. Gestalt Theory; doi:10.2478/gth-2022-0006 

2020

Burleigh, A., Pepperell, R., Ruta, N. (2020) Art and the Geometry of Visual Space in T.Flash, A.Berthoz, (2020) Space-time geometries for motion and perception in the brain and the arts, Springer Series Lecture notes in morphogenesis; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-57227-3_7 **

2018

Ruta, N., Mastandrea, S., Penacchio, O., Lamaddalena, S., Bove, G. (2018). A comparison between preference judgments of curvature and sharpness in architectural façades. Architectural Science Review, 62(2), 171-181; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00038628.2018.1558393 

Burleigh, A., Pepperell, R., Ruta, N. (2018). Natural Perspective: Mapping Visual Space with Art and Science. Vision, 2(2), 21; doi:10.3390/vision2020021 **

2016

Baldwin, J., Burleigh, A., Pepperell, R. Ruta, N. (2016). The Perceived Size and Shape of Objects in Peripheral Vision, i-Perception, July-August 2016 vol. 7 no. 4; doi:10.1177/2041669516661900 **

2015

Palumbo, L., Ruta, N., & Bertamini, M. (2015). Comparing angular and curved shapes in terms of implicit associations and approach/avoidance responses. PloS One, 10(10), e0140043

2014

Pecchinenda, A., Bertamini, M., Makin, A. D. J., & Ruta, N. (2014). The pleasantness of visual symmetry: Always, never or sometimes. PloS One, 9(3), e92685

*Authors equally contributed to this work

**Authors listed in alphabetical order

Damiano, C. & Ruta, N. & Vartanian, O (2024) Integrating Psychological Insights into Urban Design and Planning. Upcoming symposium at the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA), Palma, Mallorca (Spain), 8-10 May 2024. Retrieved from URL: https://www.iaea2024.com/_files/ugd/de9f11_2b1db596ef424edfbd37afdc7b3b2745.pdf 

Ganczarek, J., & Ruta, N. (2018). How do we make sense of space through its artistic representation? Space and embodiment in visual art. In Spatial Cognition in a Multimedia and Intercultural World Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2018). Cogn Process 19 (Suppl 1), 1–76 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-018-0884-3 

Ruta, N., Quétard, B., Bellanger, Z. & Wagemans, J. (2024) The role of aesthetic properties in temporal event understanding of sequential images. Talk presentation at the Visual Language Conference (VisLang 2024), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, June, 27-28, 2024. Accessed on 09 June 2024: https://visuallanguagelab.com/P/VisLang_2024.pdf 

Ruta, N., (2024) The Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Award for Outstanding Contributions of Young Scientists; invited oral presentation to the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics Congress, University of Balearic Islands, Palma (Mallorca, Spain), 8th-10th May 2024.

Ruta, N., De Winter, S., Damiano, C. & Wagemans, J. (2023) Art has no gender, only gender bias; invited oral presentation to the 2nd International Conference on Beauty and Change, Fondazione Amendola, University of Turin, Turin (IT), 2nd-4th November 2023. Retrieved from URL: https://fondazioneamendola.it/eventi/general-information/program/

Ruta, N., Clemente, A., Penacchio, O., Vila-Vidal, M. & Pepperell, R. (2023) Explaining the curvature effect; oral presentation to the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), University of Nicosia, Nicosia (Cyprus), 24-26 August 2023. Retrieved from URL: https://www.vsac2023.eu/program/friday-25th/

Ruta, N. & Schino, G. (2023) Bodily Sensation Maps to capture valence and arousal of artistic images: developing a new methodology; oral presentation to the 1st Scientific Meeting on Psychology, Art, and Neuroaesthetics (PAN), Bergamo (IT), 9-10 June 2023. Retrieved from URL: https://www.bertamini.org/lab/pan/ProgrammePAN2023.html

Ruta, N., Dyer, R., Vishwanath, D. & Wolfe, B. (2022) Reconnect, reiterate and reveal: a multidisciplinary framework to integrate artistic and scholarly research; oral presentation to the Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (NL), 24-27 August 2022. Retrieved from URL: https://vsac2022.tudelft.nl/?page_id=208

Ruta, N., Clemente, A., Penacchio, O., Vila-Vidal, M. & Pepperell, R. (2021) Contrasting perceptual and hedonic judgments of visual contour; oral presentation to the 7th Visual Properties Driving Visual Preferences (VPDVP) online meeting, University of Liverpool, Liverpool (UK), 23 April 2021. Retrieved from URL: https://www.bertamini.org/lab/vpdvp/vpdvp2021.pdf 

Ruta, N., Skillicorn, D., Davies, G., Burleigh, A. & Pepperell, R. (2020) Fast and automatic affective reactions to natural perspective images; oral presentation to the 6th Visual Properties Driving Visual Preferences (VPDVP) online meeting, University of Padova, Padova (IT), 12 June 2020. Retrieved from URL: https://www.bertamini.org/lab/vpdvp/vpdvp2020.pdf 

Ruta, N., Burleigh, A. & Pepperell, R. (2019) Distance estimation from egocentric point of view: a comparison between natural and linear perspective; poster presentation to the Applied Vision Association (AVA) Christmas Meeting, Cardiff University, Cardiff (UK), 16 December 2019. Retrieved from URL: http://www.theava.net/meetings.php?s=ava-xmas-meeting-16-december-cardiff 

Ruta, N., Burleigh, A. & Pepperell, R. (2019) People are better estimating distances in natural perspective than in linear perspective; oral presentation to Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), Leuven (Belgium), 21-24 August 2019. Retrieved from URL: https://www.vsac2019.org/program 

Pepperell R., Ruta N., and Burleigh A. (2019) The effects of 3D spatial geometry on image preferences; joint oral presentation to VPDVP, Liverpool, UK, 13-14 June 2019. Retrieved from URL: https://www.bertamini.org/lab/vpdvp/vpdvp2019.pdf