Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Prof. Johan Wagemans at the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, KU Leuven, and am also affiliated to the research group Computational Auditory Perception of Dr. Nori Jacoby at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics. I highly value good research practices. My research interests include visual aesthetics, perceptual organization, individual differences in perception, Bayesian statistics, and many more.

Interests

  • Visual Aesthetics
  • Perceptual Organization
  • Individual Differences
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Open Science

Education

  • Doctor of Psychology, 2023

    KU Leuven

  • Master of Psychology - Theory and Research, 2017

    KU Leuven

  • Bachelor in Psychology, 2015

    KU Leuven

Projects

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All Current Earlier Perception Aesthetics Other

Prägnanz in visual perception and aesthetic appreciation

Interactions between stimulus, person, and context

OCTA

the Order and Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics

ReproducibiliTea Leuven

ReproducibiliTea journal club @ KU_Leuven.

Neatly Organized Compositions

Which image and person properties relate to aesthetic preferences for neatly organized compositions?

Peeling an Egg website and app

Explore the hidden world of peeling an egg!

Tools for Young Researchers

Get an overview of interesting tools to use in the different steps of your research process.

Open Science

Adventures in Open Science

Insights for Impact 2016: Big Data

Internship project at Cambridge University in the framework of the Junior Researcher Programme.

Intentional Distortion in Personality Assessment

Relationship with test format, culture, and cognitive ability. Project in the framework of the Junior Researcher Programme.

Pressures for Differentiation and the Self-Concept

Do pressures for differentiation from other individuals increase clarity of the self-concept?

Shiny app introducing Bayesian Statistics

Explaining the principles of Bayesian statistics using a Shiny R app.

Recent & Upcoming Talks

ECVP 2024 - A hierarchical efficient Bayesian observer model predicts attractive and repulsive history effects in multistable perception

In multistable dot lattices, the orientation we perceive is attracted towards the orientation we perceived in the immediately preceding …
Aug 26, 2024 Aberdeen, Scotland
Eline Van Geert, Tina Ivančir, & Johan Wagemans
Project

ECVP 2024 - Creating reproducible multi-element displays for your perception research using OCTA [workshop]

The Order & Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics (OCTA; Van Geert, Bossens, & Wagemans, 2023) is an open-source Python toolbox and …
Aug 25, 2024 12:30 Aberdeen, Scotland
Eline Van Geert
Project

VSAC 2024 - Aesthetics and good Gestalt: How interacting tendencies in perceptual organization can inspire new insights in aesthetic appreciation

The relation between goodness of organization (i.e., good Gestalt) and aesthetic appreciation is a long-lived one. Several important …
Aug 24, 2024 13:30 Aberdeen, Scotland
Eline Van Geert & Johan Wagemans
Project
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Recent Publications

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Using Gibbs Sampling with People to characterize perceptual and aesthetic evaluations in multidimensional visual stimulus space

Aesthetic appreciation is inherently multidimensional: many different stimulus dimensions (e.g., colors, shapes, sizes) contribute to …
Eline Van Geert, Nori Jacoby
Project Postprint Proceedings

An efficient Bayesian observer model of attractive and repulsive temporal context effects when perceiving multistable dot lattices

In multistable dot lattices, the orientation we perceive is attracted toward the orientation we perceived in the immediately preceding …
Eline Van Geert, Tina Ivančir, Johan Wagemans
Project Postprint Paper Supplemental Materials, data, and code

A cross-cultural comparison of aesthetic preferences for neatly organized compositions: Native Chinese- vs. native Dutch-speaking samples

Do aesthetic preferences for images of neatly organized compositions (e.g., images collected on blogs like Things Organized Neatly©) …
Eline Van Geert, Rong Ding, Johan Wagemans
Project Postprint Paper Supplemental Materials, data, and code
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Software, apps, and websites

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All Current Earlier Perception Aesthetics Other

jsPsych plugin html button response circle

jsPsych plugin image resize response

KU Leuven theme for xaringan

OCTA ratings Shiny app

octa toolbox Python package

OCTA toolbox Shiny app

R package circhelp

Main developer: A. Chetverikov

Peeling an Egg

Shiny app introducing Bayesian Statistics

Supervision

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All Current Earlier Perception Aesthetics Other

Daniel Hofmann

Individual differences in visual working memory and their relation to the perception and aesthetic appreciation of order and complexity

Liesse Frérart

Towards the most prägnant Gestalt: Contextual influences on simplification and complication tendencies

Tina Ivančir

Bayesian modeling of hysteresis and adaptation in visual perception

Astrid Warny

A systematic approach to study the relations between order, complexity, and aesthetic appreciation

Teaching

I am teaching the following course at KU Leuven:

I was a teaching assistant for the following courses at KU Leuven:

  • 2018-2022: Functieleer, deel 1 (B-KUL-P0M01B)
  • 2017-2018: Practicum methoden van onderzoek (B-KUL-P0M27A)

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