PUBLICATIONS
Neuroeconomics
Berquet, S. and N.M. Grzywacz (2026) Perceived Complexity as Normalized, Integrated, Localized Shannon Entropy. Entropy. 28, 279.
Grzywacz, N.M. (2025) Perceptual Complexity as Normalized Shannon Entropy. Entropy. 27, 166. Berquet, S., H. Aleem, and N.M. Grzywacz (2024) A Fisher Information Theory of Aesthetic Preference for Complexity. Entropy. 26, 901.
Grzywacz, Norberto & Aleem, Hassan. (2022). Does Amount of Information Support Aesthetic Values? Frontiers in Neuroscience. 16, 805658.
Social Influences
Rhee, Y., H. Aleem, K.B. Mather, and N.M. Grzywacz (2026) Social Conformity of Aesthetic Values. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000862.
Grzywacz, N.M. (2026) Social Polarization Has Cognitive Roots But Is Not a Lost Cause. Science Politics. https://sciencepolitics.org/2026/02/04/social-polarization-has-cognitive-roots-but-is-not-a-lost-cause/
Grzywacz, N.M. (2025) Comparison of distance and reinforcement-learning rules in social-influence models. Neurocomputing. 130870.
Mather, K.B., H. Aleem, Y. Rhee, and N.M. Grzywacz (2023) Social Groups and Polarization of Aesthetic Values for Symmetry and Complexity. Scientific Reports. 13, 21507.
Individuality
Grzywacz, N.M. (2026) The Objectivity of Subjectivity: A Model of the Brain’s Valuation System. Scientific Reports. In Press.
Grzywacz, N.M. (2025) Balance and Mechanisms of Shared and Individual Aesthetic Values. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 51, 424-427.
Grzywacz, N.M. (2025) A Computational Analysis of the Effect of Hard Choices on the Individuation of Values. Brain Sciences. 15, 131.
The Aesthetic Brain
Aleem, H, and N.M. Grzywacz (2023) The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and Arts. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000543.
Pombo, M., H. Aleem, and N.M. Grzywacz (2023) Multiple Axes of Visual Symmetry: Detection and Aesthetic Preference. Symmetry. 15, 1568.
Grzywacz, N.M. (2021) Stochasticity, Nonlinear Value Functions, and Update Rules in Learning Aesthetic Biases. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15, 210.
Aleem, H., I. Correa-Herran, and N.M. Grzywacz (2020) A Theoretical Framework for How We Learn Aesthetic Values. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 14, 345.
Aleem, H., M. Pombo, I. Correa-Herran, and N.M. Grzywacz (2019) Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder or an Objective Truth? A Neuroscientific Answer, in Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity, Volume 10 of Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems, J. Contreras-Vidal, D. Robleto, J.G. Cruz-Garza, J.M. Azorin, and C.S. Nam (Eds.), 101-110. Springer International Publishing.
Visual Arts
Grzywacz, D.M. and N.M. Grzywacz (2025) Inferring Cinematic Aesthetic Biases from the Statistics of Early Movies. Entropy. 27, 707.
Grzywacz, N.M., C.M. Correa, and I. Correa-Herran (2024) Domain-specific Aesthetic Values: A Comparison of Paintings and Architecture. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000718.
Correa-Herran, I., H. Aleem, and N.M. Grzywacz (2020) Evolution of Neuroaesthetic Variables in Portraits Paintings throughout the Renaissance. Entropy. 22, 146-167.
Aleem, H., I. Correa-Herran, and N.M. Grzywacz (2017) Inferring Master Painters’ Esthetic Biases from the Statistics of Portraits. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11, 94.
Musical Brain
Mansuri, J., H. Aleem, and N.M. Grzywacz (2022) Systematic Errors in the Perception of Rhythm. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 16, 1009219.
Miles, S.A., D.S. Rosen, and N.M. Grzywacz (2022) Behavioral Evidence of a Harmonic Surprise Effect on Preference in Popular Music. Current Research in Behavioral Sciences. 3, 100080.
Miles, S.A., D.S. Rosen, S. Barry, D. Grunberg, and N. Grzywacz (2021) What to Expect When the Unexpected Becomes Expected: Harmonic Surprise and Preference Over Time in Popular Music. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 15, 201.
Miles, S.A., D.S. Rosen, and N.M. Grzywacz (2017) A Statistical Analysis of the Relationship Between Harmonic Surprise and Preference in Popular Music. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11, 263.
Creativity
Rodek, G., Morrison, R., and N.M. Grzywacz (2026) A Computational Model of the Brain Creative Process. In Preparation.
Mental Disorders
Pasek, EK, and N.M. Grzywacz (2026) A Computational Model of the Sensory Deficits in Autism Spectrum Disorder. In Preparation.
The Values of AI
Grzywacz, N.M. (2026) General Bayesian Reinforcement Learning and Associated Differential Approximations. Neurocomputing. 133445.