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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2009

Troncoso XG, Macknik SL, Martinez-Conde S (2009)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

Martinez-Conde S, Macknik SL (2009) Mind Matters, the Scientific American web seminar on mind and brain.

2008


Troncoso XG, Macknik SL, Otero-Millan J, Martinez-Conde S

PNAS; (Published online before print October 8, 2008).


Microsaccades drive illusory motion in the Enigma illusion
Supporting information


Macknik SL, Martinez-Conde S (2008)Scientific American Mind; 19 (October/November), 20-23.


A perspective on 3-D visual illusions

Martinez-Conde S, Macknik SL (2008) Mind Matters, the Scientific American web seminar on mind and brain.


Martinez-Conde S (2008)

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

2007


Troncoso XG, Tse PU, Macknik SL, Caplovitz GP, Hsieh P-J, Schlegel AA, Otero-Millan J, Martinez-Conde S (2007)Perception; 36, 808-820.
BOLD activation varies parametrically with corner angle throughout human retinotopic cortex

2005


Troncoso XG, Macknik SL, Martinez-Conde S (2005)

Perception; 34, 409-420.


Novel visual illusions related to Vasarely’s ‘nested squares’ show that corner salience varies with corner angle