The Brain and the Mind Lecture Series: Neuroscience and Art, 4:30 pm on PH and Streaming. This talk is by Margaret Livingstone, a Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Livingstone has made groundbreaking contributions to understanding how the brain processes visual information, including how it recognizes faces. In this presentation, she will show how she has used her expertise to elucidate ways in which artists (consciously or not) exploit glitches in our visual system to create effects in their paintings – for example the shimmering in impressionist paintings and the enigmatic smile of the Mona Lisa.
