Interactions between art and science
Look at the center of the pupil and you’ll see the surrounding purple rings fill with rapid ilusory motion. This version of Leviant’s “The Enigma” reflects the importance of eye movements in driving our perception of this illusion. Photograph and artwork by Jorge Otero-Millan. (Troncoso XG, Macknik SL, Otero-Millan J, Martinez-Conde S. PNAS; (In Press). Microsaccades drive illusory motion in “Enigma”)
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Social misdirection fails to enhance a magic illusion
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry. Sleights of Mind: Response to Van Leeuwen
Scientific American Mind; 22, 18-20. The eyes have it
Scientific American Mind; 22, 30-35. 10 top illusions
Scientific American Mind; 22, 18-20. Colors out of space
Scientific American Mind; 21, 18-20. The Illusions of Love
Scientific American Mind; 21, 22-29. Mind over Magic?
Scientific American Mind; 19, 18-20. Hungry for meaning
Scientific American Mind (Special Issue May 2010)
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 4-7.
The Neuroscience of Illusion
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 8-11.
A Perspective on 3-D Visual Illusions
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 12-15.
The Neuroscience of Yorick’s Ghost and Other Afterimages
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 16-25.
Colors Out of Space
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 26-35.
What’s in a Face?
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 36-41.
The Eyes Have It
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 42-47.
The Illusions of Love
. Scientific American Special Reports 20: 48-55.
Art as Visual Research: Kinetic Illusions in Op Art
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 56-63.
Sculpting the Impossible: Solid Renditions of Visual Illusions
Scientific American Special Reports 20: 64-71.
Food for Thought: Visual Illusions Good Enough to Eat
Spatial Vision; 22, 211–224. Corner salience varies parametrically with corner angle during flicker-augmented contrast: further predictions on corner perception from Vasarely’s artworksSpecial Issue on Vision Science and Art
Mind Matters, the Scientific American web seminar on mind and brain.
PNAS; (Published online before print October 8, 2008).
Microsaccades drive illusory motion in the Enigma illusion
Supporting information
Scientific American Mind; 19 (October/November), 20-23.
A perspective on 3-D visual illusions
Mind Matters, the Scientific American web seminar on mind and brain.
Ver y oir; 25, 146-154.
Nuevas ilusiones visuales basadas en el arte de Victor Vasarely nos ayudan a entender la percepción visual
Cover article
Perception; 36, 808-820.
BOLD activation varies parametrically with corner angle throughout human retinotopic cortex
