Training facilitates object recognition in cubist paintings

To the naïve observer, cubist paintings contain geometrical forms in which familiar objects are hardly recognizable, even in the presence of a meaningful title. We used fMRI to test whether a short training session about Cubism would facilitate object recognition in paintings by Picasso, B...

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Main Authors: Martin Wiesmann, Alumit Ishai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.09.011.2010/full