Aleksandr Grishin
How implicit learning shapes aesthetic appreciation
Research intern in Psychology · 2026-2027
I am currently doing a traineeship at the GestaltReVision lab under the supervision of Dr. Eline Van Geert. My research interests focus on the perception and aesthetic appreciation of artificially generated visual stimuli and on finding links between subjective ratings (such as self-reports of how attractive a stimulus is) and objective behavioral measures (eye tracking, performance-based measures), in order to extend the ability to explain and predict subjective data through objective measurements.
More specifically, I am interested in how implicitly learned regularities and the local context (the immediately preceding trials) change participants’ responses by creating implicit and explicit expectations about upcoming stimuli, which subsequent stimuli can confirm or violate, and by affecting processing fluency. Since implicitly learned knowledge is largely inaccessible to verbal report, even when that knowledge shapes aesthetic ratings, objectively measuring the behavioral consequences can provide essential evidence for studying it.