Art and the brain: The influence of art on Roger Shepard's studies of mental rotation

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-90

  Levy, Ellen K ^a,d   Levy, David E ^b   Goldberg, Michael E ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artistic influences; Mental rotation; Roger N. Shepard; Visual ambiguity

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ART; ATTENTION; BINOCULAR VISION; COGNITION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENTROPY; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LITERATURE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL ROTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PUBLICATION; RETINA IMAGE; REVIEW; ROTATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ART; BRAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN ART; ROTATION; UNITED STATES; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 4744374411     PISSN: 0964704X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09647040490885510     Document Type: Review

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