Art Offers Clues into Brain

In a captivating lecture filled with optical illusions, renowned artwork, and a few experiments for good measure, Professor of Neurobiology Margaret S. Livingstone presented the Mind/Brain/Behavior Distinguished Harvard Lecture for 2012.

Livingstone’s talk, entitled “What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain,” explored the way in which artists have intuited how our brains extract relevant information about faces and objects.

Livingstone emphasized throughout that artists have actually been doing experiments on vision much longer than neurobiologists.