The establishment of the first neuroaesthetics lab in Romania with a clear research agenda and
state of the art equipment purchased from our grant (the Eyelink 1000+ eyetracker, dedicated
data server, etc) means that the researchers have a base for developing this new and exciting discipline as
unique curricular offering that brings together both humanists and scientists.
The direct
beneficiaries are their students whose training in this discipline provides them with a unique set
of skills highly sought after on the job market: humanists with science training and scientists
with humanities training are more successful on the job market whatever type of employment
they pursue after graduation.
The academic staff also benefits from this achievement as we offer a unique environment for
scientists and humanists to work together on joint research projects.
This is not merely
theoretical interdisciplinarity. Researchers can work together in the same physical space, using
the same equipment and resources, learning the value of each other’s disciplinary approaches
to the same topics.
For the core team based in the lab, who will continue working on strands of PoeticA, the
neuroimaging data they have acquired provides a rich long-term “mining field” for applying
statistical analysis models and research designs
