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Is Mona Lisa smiling or are your eyes playing tricks on you?

Harvard neurobiologist Dr. Margaret Livingstone talks about her research into how the brain processes works of art. Her book is called Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing.

Is Mona Lisa smiling or are your eyes playing tricks on you?


Harvard neurobiologist Dr. Margaret Livingstone talks about her research into how the brain processes works of art. Her book is called Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing.

Dr. Livingstone will give a lecture tonight, 4/4/06, at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. The lecture is at 7 pm in the Sherwood Auditorium.

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Guest:

  • Dr. Margaret Livingstone is a professor of Neurobiology at Harvard University and author of Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing.

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