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Unlocking the Mysteries of The Artistic Mind | Psychology Today
Jonah Lehrer on how art heightens natural stiumlus-response. He uses this Picasso quote: "Art is the lie that reveals the truth." -- or, as neuroscience shows, art isn't a complete lie, but a deliberate exageration.
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Through careful distortion, he found a way to intensify reality. As Picasso put
it, "Art is the lie that reveals the truth." -
What's surprising is that such distortions often make it easier for us to
decipher what we're looking at, particularly when they're executed by a master.
Studies show we're able to recognize visual parodies of people—like a cartoon
portrait of Richard Nixon—faster than an actual photograph. The fusiform gyrus,
an area of the brain involved in
facial recognition, responds more eagerly to caricatures than to real faces,
since the cartoons emphasize the very features that we use to distinguish one
face from another. In other words, the abstractions are like a peak-shift
effect, turning the work of art or the political cartoon into a
"super-stimulus." - 1 more annotations...
Mind Hacks: Vision shift glasses alter time perception
Whoa! Wearing prism glasses that shift vision to the left "shrinks" time, while wearing prism glasses that shift vision to the right "expands" time. I'm intrigued by the linguistic implications of this, since so many of our time/space/numeric perceptions are based on our language.
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