ScienceDaily (Dec. 20, 2011)
Being told that a work of art is authentic or fake alters the brain's response to the visual content of artwork, Oxford University academics have found.
Fourteen participants were placed in a brain scanner and shown images of works by 'Rembrandt' -- some were genuine, others were convincing imitations painted by different artists. Neither the participants nor their brain signals could distinguish between genuine and fake paintings. However, advice about whether or not an artwork is authentic alters the brain's response; this advice is equally effective, regardless of whether the artwork is genuine or not.
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
The chimpanzee who sees sounds
NATURE NEWS (December 05, 2011)
Chimpanzees meld sounds and colours, associating light objects with high tones and dark objects with deeper tones.
The finding hints that chimps, like humans, experience some form of synaesthesia, an uncommon condition in which the senses become intertwined, says Vera Ludwig, a cognitive neuroscientist at Charité Medical University in Berlin, Germany, who led a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. Some synaesthetes associate different colours with letters and numbers, for instance, whereas others taste shapes.
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Chimpanzees meld sounds and colours, associating light objects with high tones and dark objects with deeper tones.
The finding hints that chimps, like humans, experience some form of synaesthesia, an uncommon condition in which the senses become intertwined, says Vera Ludwig, a cognitive neuroscientist at Charité Medical University in Berlin, Germany, who led a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. Some synaesthetes associate different colours with letters and numbers, for instance, whereas others taste shapes.
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