The Mona Lisa Illusion—Scientists See Her Looking at Them Though She Isn’t

If the person depicted in an image gazes at the camera or painter, a viewer perceives this as being gazed at. The viewers’ perception holds irrespectively of their position relative to image. This is the Mona Lisa effect named after the subject of Leonardo’s famous painting La Gioconda. The effect o...

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Autores principales: Horstmann, Gernot, Loth, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Short and Sweet
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6327345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30671222
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669518821702
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description If the person depicted in an image gazes at the camera or painter, a viewer perceives this as being gazed at. The viewers’ perception holds irrespectively of their position relative to image. This is the Mona Lisa effect named after the subject of Leonardo’s famous painting La Gioconda. The effect occurs reliably but was not tested with Mona Lisa herself. Remarkably, viewers judged Mona Lisa’s gaze as directed to their right-hand side irrespectively of the image zoom, its horizontal position on screen, and the distance of the ruler that was used for measuring the gaze direction.
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spelling pubmed-63273452019-01-22 The Mona Lisa Illusion—Scientists See Her Looking at Them Though She Isn’t Horstmann, Gernot Loth, Sebastian Iperception Short and Sweet If the person depicted in an image gazes at the camera or painter, a viewer perceives this as being gazed at. The viewers’ perception holds irrespectively of their position relative to image. This is the Mona Lisa effect named after the subject of Leonardo’s famous painting La Gioconda. The effect occurs reliably but was not tested with Mona Lisa herself. Remarkably, viewers judged Mona Lisa’s gaze as directed to their right-hand side irrespectively of the image zoom, its horizontal position on screen, and the distance of the ruler that was used for measuring the gaze direction. SAGE Publications 2019-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6327345/ /pubmed/30671222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669518821702 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons CC-BY: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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