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When looking at a finished painting, Conway says he tries to get his students to understand the painting as it was being made, as a “dynamic and changing thing” that reacts to visual feedback and makes one see it differently as it evolves...
...There is a kind of feedback as you’re making a picture—the colors on the canvas are actually changing as you apply other colors next to them,” Conway says. “That dynamic process reflects something about how the visual system works.” In fact, art and art practices are fundamentally constrained by how the visual system works, he says, and the study of art is in some ways in the service of the quest to understand vision...
Conway and Livingstone’s class, “What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain,” will introduce students to the fundamentals of visual neuroscience and then become more hands-on, with trips to local studios and museums so students can more intimately experience the connection between art and science...
...course emphasizes studying art in order to understand how the human mind construes it and what assumptions must be made about the visual system to allow the brain to create such art, according to Caramazza...
...have both insights into the visual system on the one hand but also insights about the mind that creates the object and that reflects what the visual system is capable of doing,” Caramazza says...