Perspectives on science and art.
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.
Conway
Bevil R
BR
Neuroscience Program, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481, USA. bconway@wellesley.edu
Livingstone
Margaret S
MS
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*