Chana, K., Dehove, M., Mikuni, J., Specker, E., Knoll, A. L., Barrière, T., Trupp, M. D., Pelowski, M., Oberzaucher, E., & Leder, H. (2026). Aesthetic components of urban environments and their relation to wellbeing: a scoping review. Cities & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2025.2569732

Avram, D., Dehove, M., Oberzaucher, E., Leder, H., & Mikuni, J. (2026). How Familiar Art Shapes Urban Experience: Field and Laboratory Studies on Environmental Evaluation, Restorative Potential, and Well-being. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Mikuni, J. (2025). The Frontiers of Art Viewing Research: Present and Future Perspectives Though Spatial Context, Viewer Diversity, and Well-being outcomes. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Knoll, A. L., Mikuni, J., & Specker, E. (2025). Looking at people looking at art: observations of art interactions in an everyday urban environment. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, Article 1658946. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1658946

Dehove, M., Mikuni, J., Podolin, N., Leder, H., & Oberzaucher, E. (2025). The Impact of Urban art on Wellbeing: A Laboratory Study. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 43(2), 1240-1268. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241298878

Chana, K., Mikuni, J., Rebora, S., Vezzani, G., Meyer, A., Salgaro, M., & Leder, H. (2025). Judging Books by Their Covers: The Impact of Text and Image Features on the Aesthetic Evaluation and Memorability of Italian Novels. Literature, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/literature5020013

Pelowski, M., Cabbai, G., Brinkmann, H., Mikuni, J., Hegelmaier, L., Forster, M., Rosenberg, R., & Leder, H. (2025). The Kitsch Switch—or (When) Do Experts Dislike Thomas Kinkade Art? A Study of Time-Based Evaluation Changes in Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Assessment. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 19(3), 377-395. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000302

Dehove, M., Mikuni, J., Podolin-Danner, N., Moser, M. K., Resch, B., Dörrzapf, L., Böhm, P. M., Prager, K., Leder, H., & Oberzaucher, E. (2024). Exploring the influence of urban art interventions on attraction and wellbeing: an empirical field experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1409086. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1409086

Mikuni, J., Dehove, M., Dörrzapf, L., Moser, M. K., Resch, B., Böhm, P., Prager, K., Podolin, N., Oberzaucher, E., & Leder, H. (2024). Art in the city reduces the feeling of anxiety, stress, and negative mood: A field study examining the impact of artistic intervention in urban public space on well-being. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 7, Article 100215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100215

Amend, L., Mikuni, J., Dehove, M., Dörrzapf, L., Moser, M. K., Resch, B., Böhm, P., Prager, K., Leder, H., & Oberzaucher, E. (2024). The impact of urban street green transformation on subjective well-being and evaluation of the location: A case study in Vienna, Austria. Environment and Social Psychology, 9(9), Article 2940. https://doi.org/10.59429/esp.v9i9.2861

Spee, B. T. M., Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Scharnowski, F., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2024). Using Machine Learning to Predict Judgments on Western Visual Art Along Content-Representational and Formal-Perceptual Attributes. PLoS ONE, 19(9), Article e0304285. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304285

Mikuni, J., Spee, B. T. M., Forlani, G., Leder, H., Scharnowski, F., Nakamura, K., Watanabe, K., Kawabata, H., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2024). Cross-Cultural Comparison of Beauty Judgments in Visual Art Using Machine Learning Analysis of Art Attribute Predictors Among Japanese and German Speakers. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 15948. https://doi.org/10.1038/S41598-024-65088-Z

Spee, B. T. M., Arato, J., Mikuni, J., Tran, U., Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2024). The dynamics of experiencing Gestalt and Aha in cubist art: pupil responses and art evaluations show a complex interplay of task, stimuli content, and time course. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 01-15. Article 1192565. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1192565

Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., Brinkmann, H., Ganster, V., Tanaka, T., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Güldenpfennig, F., Gartus, A., Rosenberg, R., & Pelowski, M. (2024). How Do We Move in Front of Art? How Does This Relate to Art Experience? Linking Movement, Eye Tracking, Emotion, and Evaluations in a Gallery-Like Setting. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 42(1), 86-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231160000

Chana, K., Mikuni, J., Schnebel, A., & Leder, H. (2023). Reading in the city: mobile eye-tracking and evaluation of text in an everyday setting. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1205913. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1205913

Spee, B. T. M., Mikuni, J., Leder, H., Scharnowski, F., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2023). Machine learning revealed symbolism, emotionality, and imaginativeness as primary predictors of creativity evaluations of western art paintings. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 12966. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39865-1

Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Kawabata, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2023). Symmetry as an Inter-Cultural Feature Constituting Beauty: Implicit and Explicit Beauty Evaluation of Visual Symmetry in Japan. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 42(2), 519-535. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231183377