Brain paintings

Artists have found inspiration in love, pain, landscape, death, and history, but it's safe to say linkurl:Mariano Molina;http://www.artnet.com/artist/424517091/mariano-molina.html is one of the first to find his muse in neuroscience. Molina, an artist well known in his homeland of Argentina for paintings that bend perception, spent five months working to better understand how people perceive art with linkurl:Rodrigo Quian Quiroga,;http://www.vis.caltech.edu/~rodri/ an Argentine neuroscientist at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. "There are so many things artists have known for centuries that neuroscience is just beginning to know," Quian Quiroga says. "Artists have an intuition that scientists simply don't have."

Binocular Rivalry Hands By Mariano Molina

In 2008 Quian Quiroga collaborated with University of Leicester social anthropologist linkurl:Sandra Dudley;http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/contactus/sandradudleyaddpub.html and linkurl:David Barrie,;http://www.le.ac.uk/ms/contactus/davidbarrie.html former director of the Art Fund in the UK, to investigate the "wow factor" that some experience when looking at a piece of art in a museum. They...