"What Can Art Tell Us About the Human Brain?" Margaret S. Livingstone, Ph.D.

The School of Biological Sciences and the Allergan Foundation present
What can Art tell us about the Human Brain?
featuring
Margaret S. Livingstone, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
Why do some Impressionist paintings seem to shimmer while some Op Art
paintings seem to move? What were principles of Matisse's use of
color and how did Impressionists paint air? In this presentation,
Dr. Livingstone will explore these aspects of art and how certain
techniques demonstrate that artists were doing experiments on human
vision long before neurobiologists. For example, artists have long
realized that color and luminance can play independent roles in visual
perception. Also, variations in resolution make the Mona Lisa's smile
elusive, they produce a dynamic illusion in Pointillist paintings and
Chuck Close paintings, and they affect how we perceive photomosaics.
Dr. Livingstone will show how the differences in resolution across our
visual field affect our perception, she will explore how artists have
intuited important features about how our brains extract relevant
information about faces and objects, and she will discuss why learning
disabilities may be associated with artistic talent.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
7:00 p.m. Lecture
The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of
Sciences and Engineering
Music by: "Groove Coverage - God Is A Girl" • Groove Coverage - God ...

[@lawsonbarney9556]

So much information packed in there! loved it, as a painter and lover of science.

[@ajmore]

thank you very much!

[@Sepi_architect]

awesome lecture! Thank you.

[@willianaleman6114]

Thanks a lot for putting together this significant presentation with Dr. Margaret Livingstone on Vision and Art.
As a colorist, I’m fascinated by Dr. Livingstone's book,. And of course, this video presentation seems to me to be a visual and auditorial representation of the book page by page.
Since so many transformations in digital display of images have appeared in the last 20 years, specially in HDR (Hight Dynamic Range) technology, It would be fascinating to see how HDR in film and photography, with its extended dynamic contrast range and color volume is impacting or extending Dr. Margaret Livingstone’s theory on Vision and Art. This is especially true being the fact that HDR allows us to see on an HDR reference monitor or TV an illusion closer to the three dimensional physical world. A video presentation or a third edition of Dr. Livingstone’s book including this new subject would be beneficial and delightful for colorists and visual artists in general.

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