Brooke Ramos Roberts

Neuroaesthetics · Visual science of art

Brooke Ramos Roberts

I study how the brain doesn't just receive what we see, but actively builds it — and how aesthetic value may act as a predictive signal that shapes perception itself.

Undergraduate researcher in neuroscience at Boston University, working across visual perception, aesthetic cognition, and the science of art.

Illustration of a human brain

Research focus

What I study

Meaning · Emotion

Aesthetic cognition

How the brain constructs meaning, beauty, and emotional experience through art and perception.

Vision · Attention

Neuroscience of perception

How visual systems interpret images, movement, and symbolic information into conscious experience.

Aesthetic experience

Art & brain science

Bridging artistic expression and cognitive neuroscience to understand how aesthetic experience arises.