Visual Perception in Arts and Neuroscience

我们如何看待艺术，它有什么特别之处？我们大脑中的什么过程导致我们欣赏和享受博物馆里的一件艺术品？这是一个迷人的问题，理想情况下应该由包括神经科学家和艺术家在内的跨学科团队来解决。尽管这种相互作用具有潜力，但考虑到可以提出和科学解决的问题的相关性，科学与艺术之间的联系迄今为止非常有限。然而，很有趣的是，视觉艺术家很早就意识到（至少是直觉上）神经科学中的一些视觉感知原理。例如，神经科学家研究诸如颜色感知、形状和深度如何被感知等问题，这在艺术上是众所周知的。在这方面，我们的项目的基本思想是将艺术和神经科学中有关视觉感知的知识联合收割机结合起来，并使用并同时展示视觉感知原理的10幅画布来创建一个展览。我们的目标不仅是创造新颖的艺术作品，而且要用这些画布作为一种吸引人的方式向公众展示这些神经科学原理，这些原理解释了一些有趣的东西，比如我们是如何看到的。为此目的，每张画布都将附有对所使用的神经科学原理的简单和图形解释。本次艺术与科学展览中展出的一组作品也将用于进一步研究人们如何在博物馆环境中看待艺术作品，这也是我们目前的Beyond Text奖的主题。

How do we perceive art and what is it so special about it? What processes in our brain lead us to appreciate and enjoy a piece of art in a museum? This is a fascinating question that should be ideally approached by interdisciplinary teams involving neuroscientists and artists, among others. In spite of the potential of such interactions, given the relevance of the questions that can be posed and scientifically addressed, the links between science and arts have been so far very limited. However, it is very interesting that visual artists are aware (at least intuitively) of some principles of visual perception in Neuroscience since very long. For example, Neuroscientists study issues such as color perception, how shape and depth are perceived, etc., which are well-known in Arts. In this respect, the basic idea of our project is to combine knowledge about visual perception from arts and neuroscience and create an exhibition with a selection of about 10 canvases using, and at the same time showing, principles of visual perception. The goal is not only to create novel art pieces, but also to use these canvases as an engaging way to show these neuroscience principles to the general public, which explain something as interesting as how do we see. For this purpose, each of the canvases will be accompanied with a simple and graphical explanation of the neuroscience principle used. The set of works to be presented in this Art & Science exhibition will be also used to further study how people look at art pieces in the museum environment, which is the topic of our current Beyond Text award.