Eline Van Geert

Postdoctoral Researcher
Brain & Cognition - KU Leuven

About me

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the research group of Prof. Johan Wagemans at the Research Unit of Brain & Cognition, KU Leuven. 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

In the eye of the beholder?

Mapping and understanding appearance, appreciation, and their interrelations in multidimensional stimulus spaces

Prägnanz in visual perception and aesthetic appreciation

Interactions between stimulus, person, and context

OCTA

the Order and Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics

ReproducibiliTea Leuven

Journal club initiative at KU Leuven

Peeling an Egg website and app

Explore the hidden world of peeling an egg!

Neatly organized compositions

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

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Recent & Upcoming Talks

RSE Day 2025 · The development of OCTA: A Python toolbox and point-and-click application for visual stimulus generation in psychology
Dec 4, 2025 · Leuven, Belgium
ECVP 2025 · Using Gibbs Sampling with People to characterize perceptual and aesthetic evaluations in multidimensional visual stimulus space
Aug 28, 2025 · Mainz, Germany
CogSci 2025 · Visual and musical aesthetic preferences across cultures
Aug 2, 2025 · San Francisco, United States of America

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Publications

A systematic approach to study preferences for complexity at different levels of order
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts · 2025
Eline Van Geert, Astrid Warny, & Johan Wagemans
Visual and musical aesthetic preferences across cultures
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society · 2025
Harin Lee, Eline Van Geert, Elif Çelen, Raja Marjieh, Pol van Rijn, Minsu Park, & Nori Jacoby
Multistable grouping beyond the dot lattice: Individual and contextual differences in interactions of global orientation and local shape
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics · 2025
Elisabeth Van der Hulst, Eline Van Geert, & Johan Wagemans

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Software, apps, and websites

OCTA toolbox Python package

OCTA toolbox Shiny app

OCTA ratings Shiny app

Peeling an Egg website and app

Explore the hidden world of peeling an egg!

Shiny app introducing Bayesian statistics

Explaining the principles of Bayesian statistics using a Shiny R app

PsyNet

Main developers: P. Harrison et al.

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Supervision

You?

Contact me for internship opportunities!

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

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Teaching

I am teaching the following course at KU Leuven:

2022-now: Psychologie m.i.v. psychologie van de waarneming (B-KUL-P00H0A)

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)

Contact

eline.vangeert[at]kuleuven.be
+32 16 37 34 80
Laboratory of Experimental Psychology
Tiensestraat 102 - box 3711
Leuven, Belgium