Research

• Estrada Gonzalez, V., Bobrow, I., Cardillo, E. R., Kim, O., Meletaki, V., & Chatterjee, A. (2025). A normed art database that incorporates diverse cultures and genres: The Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics artwork repository. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000755
• D. Holzman, V. Meletaki, I. Bobrow, A. Weinberger, R.F. Jivraj, A. Green, A. Chatterjee (2025). Natural Beauty and Human Potential: Examining Aesthetic, Cognitive and Emotional States in Natural, Biophilic, and Control Environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102591, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2025.102591.
• Cardillo, E. R., & Chatterjee, A. (2025). Benefits of Nature Imagery and Visual Art in Healthcare Contexts: A View from Empirical Aesthetics. Buildings, 15(7), 1027. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15071027
• Darda, K. M., Gonzalez, V. E., Christensen, A. P., Bobrow, I., Krimm, A., Nasim, Z., ... & Chatterjee, A. (2025). Art impacts in museums compared to digital encounters. Sci Rep 15, 8972 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-93630-0
• Paruzel‐Czachura, M., Workman, C. I., El Toukhy, N., & Chatterjee, A. (2024). First impressions: Do faces with scars and palsies influence warmth, competence and humanization?. British Journal of Psychology, 115(4), 706-722. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12719
• Darda, K. M., & Chatterjee, A. (2024). Cross-cultural Aesthetics: Aesthetic Contextualism and Ingroup Bias. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol, 47(3), 120-140.
• Estrada Gonzalez, V., Meletaki, V., Walker, M., Payano Sosa, J., Stamper, A., Srikanchana, R., ... & Chatterjee, A. (2024). Art therapy masks reflect emotional changes in military personnel with PTSS. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 7192. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57128-5
• Chatterjee, A. (2023). Emotion, Language and Aesthetic Expression: On Motherwell and His Art. Empirical Studies of the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231208320
• Kenett, Y.N., Cardillo, E.R., Christensen, A.P. & Chatterjee, A. (2023). Aesthetic emotions are affected by context: a psychometric network analysis. Scientific Reports, 13, 20985. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48219-w
• Bellaiche, L., Smith, A. P., Barr, N., Christensen, A., Williams, C., Ragnhildstveit, A., Schooler, J., Beaty, R., Chatterjee, A. & Seli, P. (2023). Back to the basics: Abstract painting as an index of creativity. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2243100 
• Sosa, J. P., Srikanchana, R., Walker, M., Stamper, A., King, J., Ollinger, J., Bonavia, G., Workman, C., Darda, K., Chatterjee, A. & Rhodes, C. S. (2023). Increased Functional Connectivity in Military Service Members Presenting a Psychological Closure and Healing Theme in Art Therapy Masks. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 102050. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aip.2023.102050
• Christensen, A. P., Cardillo, E. R., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000541
• Darda, K. M., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). The impact of contextual information on aesthetic engagement of artworks. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 4273. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-30768-9
• Kenett, Y. N., Humphries, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). A Thirst for Knowledge: Grounding Curiosity, Creativity, and Aesthetics in Memory and Reward Neural Systems. Creativity Research Journal, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2165748
• Chatterjee, A. (2022). Art in an age of artificial intelligence. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1024449. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1024449
• Christensen, A. P., Cardillo, E. R., & Chatterjee, A. (2022). What kind of impacts can artwork have on viewers? Establishing a taxonomy for aesthetic impacts. British Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12623
• Villavisanis, D. F., Workman, C. I., Zapatero, Z. D., Vu, G. H., Humphries, S. A., Blum, J. D., Cho, D.Y., Swanson, J.W., Bartlett, S.P., Chatterjee, A. & Taylor, J. A. (2023). Visual Attention, Bias, and Social Dispositions Toward People with Facial Anomalies: A Prospective Study with Eye-Tracking Technology. Annals of Plastic Surgery, 90(5), 482-486. https://doi.org/10.1097/sap.0000000000003435
• Villavisanis, D. F., Whitaker, L. A., Chatterjee, A., & Taylor, J. A. (2022). Neuroaesthetics in Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery: Opportunities for Interdisciplinary Collaboration. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 10-1097. https://doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0000000000009880
• Weinberger, A. B., Garside, E. W., Christensen, A. P., & Chatterjee, A. (2022). Effects of expertise on psychological responses to buildings and natural landscapes. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 84, 101903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101903
• Villavisanis, D., Workman, C., Zapatero, Z. D., Vu, G., Humphries, S., Blum, J. D., ... & Taylor, J. A. (2022). Layperson Bias and Empathy Influence Visual Attention Toward Patients with Hemifacial Microsomia: A Prospective Eye-tracking Study. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open, 10 (10 Suppl). https://doi.org/10.1097/01.GOX.0000898996.44696.95
• Zapatero, Z. D., Workman, C. I., Kalmar, C. L., Humphries, S., Kosyk, M. S., Carlson, A. R., ... & Taylor, J. A. (2022). Facial Scars: Do Position and Orientation Matter?. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. https://doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0000000000009728
• Villavisanis, D. F., Workman, C. I., Cho, D. Y., Zapatero, Z. D., Wagner, C. S., Blum, J. D., ... & Taylor, J. A. (2022). Associations of Facial Proportionality, Attractiveness, and Character Traits. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, 33(5), 1431-1435. https://doi.org/10.1097/SCS.0000000000008662
• Workman, C., Smith, K., Apicella, C., & Chatterjee, A. (2022). Evidence against the “anomalous-is-bad” stereotype in Hadza hunter gatherers. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12440-w
• Villavisanis, D.F., Workman, C.I., Zapatero, Z.D., Vu, G.H., Humphries, S., Cho, D.Y., Cheung, L., Blum, J.D., Swanson, J.D., Bartlett, S.P., Chatterjee, A., & Taylor, J.A. (2022). Visual Perceptions of Hemifacial Microsomia Reconstruction: A Prospective Study with Eye Tracking Technology and Mixed Linear Effects Models Analysis. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.GOX.0000828596.70420.5f
• Villavisanis, D.F., Workman, C.I., Cho, D.Y., Zapatero, Z.D.,  Wagner, C.S., Cheung, L., Blum, J.D., Bartlett, S.P., Swanson, J.D., Chatterjee, A., & Taylor, J.A. (2022). It’s All Relative: Associations of Facial Proportionality, Attractiveness, and Character Traits. Journal of Craniofacial Surgery. https://dx.doi.org/10.1097%2F01.GOX.0000828408.86704.05
• Hartung, F., Wang, Y., Mak, M., Willems, R., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). Aesthetic appraisals of literary style and emotional intensity in narrative engagement are neurally dissociable. Nature Communications Biology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02926-0
• He, D., Workman, C., He, X., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). What is good is beautiful (and what isn’t, isn’t): How moral character affects perceived facial attractiveness. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000454
• Hayn-Leichsenring, G., Vartanian, O. & Chatterjee, A. (2021). The role of expertise in the aesthetic evaluation of mathematical equations. Psychological Research (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01592-5
• Chatterjee, A., Coburn, A. & Weinberger, A. (2021). The neuroaesthetics of architectural spaces. Cognitive Processing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-021-01043-4
• He, D., Workman, C. I., Kenett, Y. N., He, X., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). The effect of aging on facial attractiveness: An empirical and computational investigation. Acta Psychologica, 219, 103385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103385
• Weinberger, A. B., Christensen, A. P., Coburn, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). Psychological responses to buildings and natural landscapes. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 77, 101676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101676
• Vartanian, O., Navarrete, G., Palumbo, L., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). Individual differences in preference for architectural interiors. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 77, 101668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2021.101668
• Kenett, Y. N., Ungar, L., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). Beauty and wellness in the semantic memory of the beholder. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 696507. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.696507 
• Workman, C. I., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). The Face Image Meta-Database (fIMDb) & ChatLab Facial Anomaly Database (CFAD): Tools for research on face perception and social stigma. Methods in Psychology, 5, 100063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2021.100063
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• Humphries, S., Rick, J., Weintraub, D., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). Movement in aesthetic experiences: What we can learn from Parkinson's disease. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 33(7) 1329–1342. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01718
• Workman, C. I., Humphries, S., Hartung, F., Aguirre, G. K., Kable, J. W., & Chatterjee, A. (2021). Morality is in the eye of the beholder: The neurocognitive basis of the "anomalous‐is‐bad" stereotype. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14575
• Zhao, X., Wang, J., Li, J., Luo, G., Li, T., Chatterjee, A., Zhang, W., & He, X. (2020). The neural mechanism of aesthetic judgments of dynamic landscapes: An fMRI study. Scientific Reports, 10, 20774. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77658-y
• Coburn, A., Vartanian, O., Kenett, Y. N., Nadal, M., Hartung, F., Hayn-Leichsenring, G., Navarrete, G., Gonzalez-Mora, J. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2020). Psychological and neural responses to architectural interiors. Cortex, 126, 217–241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2020.01.009
• Hayn-Leichsenring, G. U., Kenett, Y. N., Schulz, K., & Chatterjee, A. (2020). Abstract art paintings, global image properties, and verbal descriptions: An empirical and computational investigation. Acta Psychologica, 202, 102936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.102936
• Faust, N. T., Chatterjee, A., & Christopoulos, G. I. (2019). Beauty in the eyes and the hand of the beholder: Eye and hand movements' differential responses to facial attractiveness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 85, 103884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103884
• Hartung, F., Jamrozik, A., Rosen, M. E., Aguirre, G., Sarwer, D. B., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Behavioural and neural responses to facial disfigurement. Scientific Reports, 9, 8021. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44408-8
• Nadal, M., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Neuroaesthetics and art's diversity and universality. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 10(3), e1487. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1487
• Jamrozik, A., Oraa Ali, M., Sarwer, D. B., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). More than skin deep: Judgments of individuals with facial disfigurement. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(1), 117–129. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000147
• Vartanian, O., Navarrete, G., Chatterjee, A., Fich, L. B., Leder, H., Modroño, C., Rostrup, N., Skov, M., Corradi, G., & Nadal, M. (2019). Preference for curvilinear contour in interior architectural spaces: Evidence from experts and nonexperts. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(1), 110–116. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000150
• Hayn-Leichsenring, G. U., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Colliding terminological systems—Immanuel Kant and contemporary empirical aesthetics. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 37(2), 197–219. https://doi.org/10.1177/0276237418818635
• Belfi, A. M., Vessel, E. A., Brielmann, A., Isik, A. I., Chatterjee, A., Leder, H., Pelli, D. G., & Starr, G. G. (2019). Dynamics of aesthetic experience are reflected in the default-mode network. NeuroImage, 188, 584–597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.12.017
• Faust, N. T., Chatterjee, A., & Christopoulos, G. I. (2018). The effect of unrelated social exchanges on facial attractiveness judgments. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 79, 290–300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2018.08.010
• Meghani, S. H., Peterson, C., Kaiser, D. H., Rhodes, J., Rao, H., Chittams, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). A pilot study of a mindfulness-based art therapy intervention in outpatients with cancer. American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 35(9), 1195–1200. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049909118760304
• Chatterjee, A. (2017). Orange is the new aesthetic [Commentary on the journal article The Distancing-Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception, by W. Menninghaus, V. Wagner, J. Hanich, E. Wassiliwizky, T. Jacobsen, & S. Koelsch]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40(355), e355. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17001637
• Coburn, A., Vartanian, O., & Chatterjee, A. (2017). Buildings, beauty, and the brain: A neuroscience of architectual experience. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(9), 1521–1531. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01146
• Chatterjee, A. (2017). A cognitive aesthetics of literature and the arts [Review of the book Beauty and sublimity, by P. C. Hogan]. Cognitive Semiotics, 10(1), 41–47. https://doi.org/10.1515/cogsem-2017-0003
• Chatterjee, A., & Vartanian, O. (2016). Neuroscience of aesthetics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1369(1), 172–194. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13035
• Pearce, M. T., Zaidel, D. W., Vartanian, O., Skov, M., Leder, H., Chatterjee, A., & Nadal, M. (2015). Neuroaesthetics: The cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(2), 265–279. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615621274
• Pegors, T. K., Kable, J. W., Chatterjee, A., & Epstein, R. A. (2015). Common and unique representations in pFC for face and place attractiveness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 27(5), 959–973. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00777
• Vartanian, O., Navarrete, G., Chatterjee, A., Fich, L. B., Gonzalez-Mora, J. L., Leder, H., Modroño, C., Nadal, M., Rostrup, N., & Skov, M. (2015). Architectural design and the brain: Effects of ceiling height and perceived enclosure on beauty judgments and approach-avoidance decisions. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 41, 10–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2014.11.006
• Graham, D., Schwarz, B., Chatterjee, A., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2014). Preference for luminance histogram regularities in natural scenes. Vision Research, 120, 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2015.03.018
• Chatterjee, A., & Vartanian, O. (2014). Neuroaesthetics. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18(7), 370–375. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.03.003
• Chatterjee, A. (2014). Scientific aesthetics: Three steps forward. British Journal of Psychology, 105, 465–467. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12086
• Chancellor, B., Duncan, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2014). Art therapy for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 39(1), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.3233/JAD-131295
• Göksun, T., Kranjec, A., Chatterjee, A. (2014). The development of visual art preferences. In A. Kozbelt (Ed.), Proceedings of the twenty-third biennial congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 223–225). New York, NY: International Association of Empirical Aesthetics.
• Vartanian, O., Navarrete, G., Chatterjee, A., Fich, L. B., Leder, H., Modroño, C., Nadal, M., Rostrup, N., & Skov, M. (2013). Impact of contour on aesthetic judgments and approach-avoidance decisions in architecture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(2), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1301227110
• van Buren, B., Bromberger, B., Potts, D., Miller, B., & Chatterjee A. (2013). Changes in painting styles of two artists with Alzheimer’s disease. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 7(1), 89–94. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0029332
• Chatterjee A. (2011). Where there be dragons: Finding the edges of neuroaesthetics. Aesthetics, 31(2), 4–6.
• Chatterjee, A., Bromberger, B., Smith, W., Sternschein, R., & Widick, P. (2011). Artistic production following brain damage: A study of three artists. Leonardo, 44(5), 405–410. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00240
• Chatterjee, A. (2011). Neuroaesthetics: A coming of age story. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23(1), 53–62. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2010.21457
• Chatterjee, A., Widick, P., Sternschein, R., Smith, W. B., & Bromberger, B. (2010). The assessment of art attributes. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 28(2), 207–222. https://doi.org/10.2190/EM.28.2.f
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• Chatterjee, A., Thomas, A., Smith, S. E., & Aguirre, G. K. (2008). The neural response to facial attractiveness. Neuropsychology, 23(2), 135–143. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0014430
• Chatterjee, A., Hamilton, R. H., & Amorapanth, P. X. (2006). Art produced by a patient with Parkinson’s disease. Behavioural Neurology, 17(2), 105–108. https://doi.org/10.1155/2006/901832
• Chatterjee, A. (2006). The neuropsychology of visual art: Conferring capacity. International Review of Neurobiology, 74, 39–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0074-7742(06)74003-X
• Wilson A., & Chatterjee A. (2005). The assessment of preference for balance: Introducing a new test. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 23(2), 165–180. https://doi.org/10.2190/B1LR-MVF3-F36X-XR64
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• Chatterjee A. (2004). The neuropsychology of visual artistic expression. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1568–1583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.03.011
• Chatterjee A. (2003). Prospects for a cognitive neuroscience of visual aesthetics. Bulletin of Psychology and the Arts, 4(2), 55–60. https://doi.org/10.1037/e514602010-003
• Chatterjee A. (2002). Portrait profiles and the notion of agency. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 20(1), 33–41. https://doi.org/10.2190/3WLF-AGTV-0AW7-R2CN

Language & Space

• Chatterjee, A. (2025). The curious case of Cortex covers. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 182, 199-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.11.003
• Chakrabarty, M., Klooster, N., Biswas, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2023). The scope of using pragmatic language tests for early detection of dementia: A systematic review of investigations using figurative language. Alzheimer's & Dementia: the Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.13369
• Christensen, A. P., & Kenett, Y. N. (2021). Semantic network analysis (SemNA): A tutorial on preprocessing, estimating, and analyzing semantic networks. Psychological Methods. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000463
• Weisberg, S. M., & Chatterjee, A. (2020). Reference frames in spatial communication for navigation and sports: An empirical study in ultimate frisbee players. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 53. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00254-1
• Klooster, N., McQuire, M., Grossman, M., McMillan, C., Chatterjee, A., & Cardillo, E. R. (2020). The neural basis of metaphor comprehension: Evidence from left hemisphere degeneration. Neurobiology of Language, 1(4), 474–491. https://doi.org/10.1162/nol_a_00022
• Hartung, F. Kenett, Y. N., Cardillo, E. R., Humphries, S., Klooster, N., & Chatterjee, A. (2020). Context matters: Novel metaphors in supportive and non-supportive contexts. NeuroImage, 212, 116645. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.116645
• Humphries, S., Klooster, N., Cardillo, E. R., Weintraub, D., Rick, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). From action to abstraction: The sensorimotor grounding of metaphor in Parkinson’s disease. Cortex, 121, 362–384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2019.09.005
• Özer, D., Göksun, T., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Differential roles of gestures on spatial language in neurotypical elderly adults and individuals with focal brain injury. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 36(5–6), 282–299. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643294.2019.1618255
• Weisberg, S. M., Newcomb, N., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Everyday taxi drivers: Do better navigators have larger hippocampi? Cortex, 115, 280–293. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.12.024
• Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Woods, A. J., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Time is not more abstract than space in sound. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 48. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00048
• Cardillo, E. R., McQuire, M., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). Selective metaphor impairments after left, not right, hemisphere injury. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2308. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02308
• Akbıyıka, S., Karaduman, A., Göksun, T., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). The relationship between co-speech gesture production and macrolinguistic discourse abilities in people with focal brain injury. Neuropsychologia, 117, 440–453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.06.025
• Weisberg, S. M., Marchette, S. A., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). Behavioral and neural representations of spatial directions across words, schemas, and images. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(21), 4996–5007. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3250-17.2018
• Weisberg, S. M., Badgio, D., & Chatterjee, A. (2018). Feel the way with a vibrotactile compass: Does a navigational aid aid navigation? Journal of Experimental Psychology, 44(5), 667–679. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000472
• Özer, D., Tansan, M., Özer, E. E., Malykhina, K., Chatterjee, A., & Göksun, T. (2017). The effects of gesture restriction on spatial language in young and elderly adults. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1471–1476). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Cardillo, E. R., Watson, C., & Chatterjee, A. (2017). Stimulus needs are a moving target: 240 additional matched literal and metaphorical sentences for testing neural hypotheses about metaphor. Behavior Research Methods, 49(2), 471–483. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-016-0717-1
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• Karaduman, A., Göksun, T., & Chatterjee, A. (2017). Narratives of focal brain injured individuals: A macro-level analysis. Neuropsychologia, 99, 314–325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.03.027
• McQuire, M., McCollum, L., & Chatterjee, A. (2016). Aptness and beauty in metaphor. Language and Cognition, 9(2), 316–331. https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2016.13
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• Jamrozik, A., McQuire, M., Cardillo, E. R., & Chatterjee, A. (2016). Metaphor: Bridging embodiment to abstraction. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(4), 1080–1089. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0861-0
• Nozari, N., Göksun T., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Phonological similarity affects production of gestures, even in the absence of overt speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1347. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01347
• Göksun T., Lehet M., Malykhina K., & Chatterjee A. (2015). Spontaneous gesture and spatial language: Evidence from focal brain injury. Brain and Language, 150, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2015.07.012
• Ianni, G. R., Cardillo, E. R., McQuire, M., & Chatterjee, A. (2014). Flying under the radar: Figurative language impairments in focal lesion patients. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 871. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00871
• Kranjec, A., Lupyan, G., & Chatterjee, A. (2014). Categorical biases in perceiving spatial relations. PLOS ONE, 9(5), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098604
• Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., & Chatterjee, A. (2014). Pitch affects estimates of space but not vice versa. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Program of the 36th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 779–784). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Göksun T., Lehet M., Malykhina K., & Chatterjee A. (2013). Naming and gesturing spatial relations: Evidence from focal brain-injured individuals. Neuropsychologia, 51, 1518–1527. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.05.006
• Amorapanth, P., Kranjec, A., Bromberger, B., Lehet, M., Widick, P., Woods, A. J., Kimberg, D. Y., & Chatterjee, A. (2012). Language, perception, and the schematic representation of spatial relations. Brain and Language, 120, 226–236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2011.09.007
• Schmidt, G. L., Cardillo, E. R., Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Widick, P., & Chatterjee, A. (2012). Not all analogies are created equal: Associative and categorical analogy processing following brain damage. Neuropsychologia, 50, 1372–1379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.022
• Cardillo, E. R., Watson, C. E., Schmidt, G. L., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2012). From novel to familiar: Tuning the brain for metaphors. NeuroImage, 59(4), 3212–3221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.079
• Watson, C., & Chatterjee, A. (2012). A bilateral frontoparietal network underlies visuospatial analogical reasoning. NeuroImage, 59(3), 2831–2838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.030
• Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Are temporal concepts embodied? A challenge for cognitive neuroscience. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 240. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2010.00240
• Wencil, E. B., Aguirre, G. K., Coslett, H. B., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Carving the clock at its component joints: Neural basis for interval timing. Journal of Neurophysiology, 104(1), 160–168. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00029.2009
• Wencil, E. B., Radoeva, P., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Size isn’t all that matters: Noticing differences in size and temporal order. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 171. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00171
• Cardillo, E. R., Schmidt, G., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Stimulus design is an obstacle course: 560 matched literal and metaphorical sentences for testing neural hypotheses about metaphor. Behavior Research Methods, 42(3), 651–664. https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.3.651
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• Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., Bromberger, B., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). A sinister bias for calling fouls in soccer. PLOS ONE, 5(7), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011667
• Chatterjee, A. (2010). Disembodying cognition. Language and Cognition, 2(1), 79–116. https://doi.org/10.1515/langcog.2010.004
• Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E. R., Schmidt, G., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). Prescribed spatial prepositions influence how we think about time. Cognition, 114, 111–116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.09.008
• Amorapanth, P., Widick, P., & Chatterjee, A. (2009). The neural basis for spatial relations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22(8), 1739–1753. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21322
• Schmidt, G., Kranjec, A., Cardillo, E. R., & Chatterjee, A. (2009). Beyond laterality: A critical assessment of research on the neural basis of metaphor. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 16(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355617709990543
• Chen, E., Widick, P., & Chatterjee, A. (2008). Functional-anatomical organization of predicate metaphor processing. Brain and Language, 107(3), 194–202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2008.06.007
• Chatterjee, A. (2008). The neural organization of spatial thought and language. Seminars in Speech and Language, 29(3), 226–238. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1082886
• Wu, D., Waller, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2007). The functional neuroanatomy of thematic role and locative relational knowledge. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(9), 1542–1555. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2007.19.9.1542
• Gottfried, J. A., Sancar, F., & Chatterjee, A. (2003). Acquired mirror writing and reading: Evidence for reflected graphemic representations. Neuropsychologia, 41, 96–107. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(02)00130-6
• Chatterjee, A. (2001). Language and space: Some interactions. Trends in Cognitive Science, 5(2), 55–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01598-9

Event Representation

• Quandt, L. C., Lee, Y.-S., & Chatterjee, A. (2017). Neural bases of action abstraction. Biological Psychology, 129, 314–323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2017.09.015
• Quandt, L. C., Cardillo, E. R., Kranjec, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Fronto-temporal regions encode the manner of motion in spatial language. Neuroscience Letters, 609, 171–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2015.10.041
• Quandt, L. C., & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Rethinking actions: Implementation and association. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 6(6), 483–490. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1367
• Woods, A. J., Kranjec, A., Lehet, M., & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Expertise and decision-making in American football. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 994. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00994
• Piedimonte, A., Woods, A. J., & Chatterjee, A. (2015). Disambiguating ambiguous motion perception: What are the cues? Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 902. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00902
• Watson, C. E., Cardillo, E. R., Bromberger, B., & Chatterjee, A. (2014). The specificity of action knowledge in sensory and motor systems. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 494. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00494
• Watson, C. E., Cardillo, E. R., Ianni, G. R., & Chatterjee, A. (2013). Action concepts in the brain: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25, 1191–1205. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00401
• Watson, C., & Chatterjee, A. (2011). The functional neuroanatomy of actions. Neurology, 76, 1428–1434. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0b013e3182166e2c
• Wu, D., Morganti, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2008). Neural substrates of processing path and manner information of a moving event. Neuropsychologia, 46, 704–713. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.09.016
• Kable, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2006). Specificity of action representations in occipitotemporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(9), 1498–1517. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.9.1498
• Kable, J., Kan, I. P., Wilson, A., Thompson-Schill, S. L., & Chatterjee, A. (2005). Conceptual representations of action in the lateral temporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(12), 1855–1870. https://doi.org/10.1162/089892905775008625
• Kable, J., Lease-Spellmeyer, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2002). The neural substrate of action event knowledge. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 14(5), 785–794. https://doi.org/10.1162/08989290260138681
• Chatterjee, A., Southwood, M. H., & Basilico, D. (1999). Verbs, events and spatial representations. Neuropsychologia, 37, 395–402.

Neuroethics

• Dinh, C. T., Humphries, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2020). Public opinion on cognitive enhancement varies across different situations. AJOB Neuroscience, 11(4), 224–237. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2020.1811797
• Conrad, E. C., Humphries, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Attitudes towards cognitive enhancement: The role of metaphor and context. AJOB Neuroscience, 10(1), 35–47. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2019.1595771
• Weisberg, S. M., Badgio, D., & Chatterjee, A. (2017). A CRISPR new world: Attitudes in the public toward innovations in human genetic modification. Frontiers in Public Health, 5, 117. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00117
• Chatterjee, A. (2013). Drugs to build a better brain. Nature, 496, 431–432. https://doi.org/10.1038/496431a
• Chancellor, B., & Chatterjee, A. (2011). Brain branding: When neuroscience and commerce collide. AJOB Neuroscience, 2(4), 18–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2011.611123
• Hamilton, R., Messing, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2011). Rethinking the thinking cap. Neurology, 76(2), 187–193. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0b013e318205d50d
• Chatterjee, A. (2009). A medical view of potential adverse effects [Letter to the editor]. Nature, 457, 532–533. https://doi.org/10.1038/457532c
• Chatterjee, A. (2009). Is it acceptable for people to take methylphenidate to enhance performance? No. British Medical Journal, 338, 1532–1533. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b1956
• Chatterjee, A. (2008). Framing pains, pills, and professors. Expositions, 2(2), 139–146. https://doi.org/10.1558/expo.v2i2.139
• Chatterjee, A. (2007). Cosmetic neurology and cosmetic surgery: Parallels, predictions and challenges. Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 16, 129–137. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963180107070156
• Chatterjee, A. (2006). The promise and predicament of cosmetic neurology. Journal of Medical Ethics, 32, 110–113. https://doi.org/10.1136/jme.2005.013599
• Chatterjee, A. (2004). Cosmetic neurology: The controversy over enhancing movement, mentation, and mood. Neurology, 63(6), 968–974. https://doi.org/10.​1212/​01.​WNL.​0000138438.​88589.​7C

Miscellaneous

• Chatterjee, A., Leder, H., Nadal, M., Smith, J., Smith, L., Tinio, P. P., Vartanian, O. & Zellner, D. (2024). Remembrances of Paul Locher. Empirical Studies of the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241288340
• Han, H., Workman, C. I., May, J., Scholtens, P., Dawson, K. J., Glenn, A. L., & Meindl, P. (2022). Which moral exemplars inspire prosociality? Philosophical Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2035343
• Weinberger, A. B., Gallagher, N. M., Colaizzi, G., Liu, N., Parrott, N., Fearon, E., ... & Green, A. E. (2022). Analogical mapping across sensory modalities and evidence for a general analogy factor. Cognition, 223, 105029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105029
• Chakrabarty, M., Pflieger, E. M., Cardillo, E. R., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Effects of acquired chronic brain injury on quality of life: A preliminary study in patients with a left or right-sided lesion. Archives of Rehabilitation Research and Clinical Translation, 2(1), 100031. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arrct.2019.100031
• Chatterjee, A. (2018). Reflections on mirror neurons and rehabilitation [Commentary on the journal article Functions of the mirror neuron system: Implications for neurorehabilitation, by G. Buccino, A. Solodkin, & S. L. Small]. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 31(4), 243–244. https://doi.org/10.1097/WNN.0000000000000177
• Yeatts, S. D., Broderick, J. P., Chatterjee, A., Jauch, E. C., Levine, S. R., Romano, J. G., Saver, J. L., Vagal, A., Purdon, B., Devenport, J., & Khatri, P. (2018). Alteplase for the treatment of acute ischemic stroke in patients with low National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale and not clearly disabling deficits (Potential of rtPA for Ischemic Strokes with Mild Symptoms PRISMS): Rationale and design. International Journal of Stroke, 13(6), 654–661. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747493018765269
• Siegler, J. E., Kable J. W., & Chatterjee, A. (2016). Resident decision making: Opioids in the outpatient setting. Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 8(2), 138–141. https://doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-15-00186.1
• Wende, K. C., Nagels, A., Stratmann, M., Chatterjee, A., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2015). Neural basis of altered physical and social causality judgements in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Research, 161(2), 244–251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2014.11.007
• Vo, K., Rutledge, R. B., Chatterjee, A., & Kable, J. W. (2014). Dorsal striatum is necessary for stimulus-value but not action-value learning in humans. Brain, 137(12), 3129–3135. https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awu277
• Olson, I. R., Ezzyat, Y., Plotzker, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2014). The end point of the ventral visual stream: Face and non-face perceptual deficits following unilateral anterior temporal lobe damage. Neurocase: The Neural Basis of Cognition, 21(5), 554–562. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2014.959025
• Göksun, T., Woods, A. J., Chatterjee, A., Zelonis, S., Glass, L., & Smith, S. E. (2013). Elementary school children’s attentional biases in physical and numerical space. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 10, 433–448. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2012.692965
• Woods, A. J., Göksun, T., Chatterjee, A., Zelonis, S., Mehta, A., & Smith, S. (2013). The development of organized visual search. Acta Psychologica, 143, 191–199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.03.008
• Smith, S. E., & Chatterjee, A. (2008). Visuospatial attention in children. Archives of Neurology, 65(10), 1284–1288. https://doi.org/10.1001/archneur.65.10.1284
• Fellows, L., Stark, M., Berg, A., & Chatterjee, A. (2008). Patient registries in cognitive neuroscience research: Advantages, challenges, and practical advice. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 20(6), 1107–1113. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.20065
• Chatterjee, A. (2005). A madness to the methods in cognitive neuroscience? Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(6), 847–849. https://doi.org/10.1162/0898929054021085
• Biran, I., Giovannetti, T., Buxbaum, L., & Chatterjee, A. (2006). The alien hand syndrome: What makes the alien hand alien? Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23(4), 563–582. https://doi.org/10.1080/02643290500180282
• Snyder, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2006). The frontal cortex and exogenous attentional orienting. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(11), 1913–1923. https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.11.1913
• Ricci, R., Genero, R., Colombatti, S., Zampieri, D., & Chatterjee, A. (2005). Visuomotor links in awareness: Evidence from extinction. Neuroreport, 16(8), 843–847. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2012.692965
• Snyder, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2004). Spatial-temporal anisometries following right parietal damage. Neuropsychologia, 42(12), 1703–1708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.04.003
• Ricci, R., & Chatterjee, A. (2004). Sensory and response contributions to visual awareness in extinction. Experimental Brain Research, 157(1), 85–93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-003-1823-8
• Olson, E., Stark, M., & Chatterjee, A. (2003). Evidence for a unimodal somatosensory attention system. Experimental Brain Research, 151(1), 15–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-003-1428-2
• Ricci, R., & Chatterjee, A. (2001). Context and crossover in unilateral neglect. Neuropsychologia, 39(11), 1138–1143. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(01)00054-9
• Vaishnavi, S., Calhoun, J., & Chatterjee, A. (2001). Binding personal and peripersonal space: Evidence from tactile extinction. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13(2), 181–189. https://doi.org/10.1162/089892901564243
• Chatterjee, A., Ricci, R., & Calhoun, J. (2000). Weighing the evidence for cross over in neglect. Neuropsychologia, 38(10), 1390–1397. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00042-7

Aesthetic Impact Survey Template (beta)

We are sharing the multi-step survey we use to collect detailed information about the emotional impact of an artwork.

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PCfN Artwork Repository (beta)

The PCfN has curated a collection of 300+ art images suitable for use in empirical aesthetics research. The collection intentionally samples from underrepresented cultures and each image is normed on beauty, liking, familiarity, and 11 aesthetic impact terms.

Estrada Gonzalez, V.*; Bobrow, B.; Cardillo, E.R.; Kim, O.; Meletaki, V.; Chatterjee, A. (Manuscript in preparation).

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Aesthetic Cognitivism

Review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism with semantic maps and dimensions of descriptive and impact aesthetic cognitivism terms.

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Assessment of Art Attributes (AAA)

The AAA is an instrument designed to assess six formal-perceptual and six conceptual-representational attributes using 24 paintings from the Western canon.

Chatterjee, Widick, Sternschein, Smith, & Bromberger (2010)

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Assessment of Preference for Balance (APB)

Here, we introduce the assessment of preference for balance (APB) and report a method to derive an objective balance score.

Wilson & Chatterjee (2005)

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Face Image Meta-Database (fIMDb)

The fIMDb provides detailed information about sources for face photographs intended for use in research.

Workman & Chatterjee (2021)

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ChatLab Facial Anomaly Database (CFAD)

The CFAD was developed to facilitate research on biases towards individuals with facial anomalies. The database allows searching by age, sex, ethnicity, pose, and type/etiology of anomaly. Retrieve original stimuli or view images at various stages of pre-processing, e.g., normalized to interpupillary distance.

Workman & Chatterjee (2021)

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Cardillo Normed Metaphors

We provide 400 pairs of matched metaphoric and literal sentences. The set features metaphors of three types (nominal-entity, nominal-event, and predicate) and two modalities (sound, motion), and has been normed on 10+ psycholinguistic and theoretically-relevant properties (e.g. familiarity, interpretability, imageability, beauty).

Cardillo, Schmidt, Kranjec, & Chatterjee (2010)

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McQuire, McCollum, & Chatterjee (2016)

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Cardillo, Watson, & Chatterjee (2017)

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Ratinginstrument für zweidimensionale bildnerische Arbeiten (RizbA)—Rating Instrument for Two-Dimensional Pictorial Work

The RizbA is a 26-item survey designed to evaluate pictorial expression, as theoretically defined by 7 content areas: representation, color, shape, space, motion, composition, expression. English translations for survey items are provided in the original publication, and an empirically-validated version of the translated survey is in development.

Schoch, K., Gruber, H., Ostermann, T. (2017)

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