Irene Ronga is a post-doc researcher and lecturer at the department of Neuroscience at the University of Turin, Italy.

She will present about aesthetic experiences and the distinctive state they induce, characterized not only by enhanced perceptual processing but also by a reduction in motor readiness (the so-called ‘Stopping for knowledge’ Hypothesis). In this talk, she will present a series of behavioural and neuroscientific studies investigating the relationship between aesthetic appreciation, motor inhibition, and knowledge-seeking behaviour.