title: Perspectives on science and art.
abstract: Artists try to understand how we see, sometimes explicitly exploring rules of perspective or color, visual illusions, or iconography, and conversely, scientists who study vision sometimes address the perceptual questions and discoveries raised by the works of art, as we do here.
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience Program, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA. bconway@wellesley.edu
authors.forename: Bevil R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Conway
authors.forename: Margaret S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Livingstone
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history; D003116:Color; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D006801:Humans; D012586:Science / Q000266:history; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*