Art and Perception. Towards a Visual Science of Art, Part 1

Baingio Pinna, Ph.D. (1993) in Experimental Psychology, University of Padua, Italy, is Professor of Psychology and Perceptual Psychology at University of Sassari, Italy. He has published extensively on visual psychophysics and discovered several new visual illusions (Revolving Wheels, Watercolor, Discoloration, Flashing Color Contrast, etc.).

• IntroductionArt as a scientific object: toward a visual science of artB. PinnaSome principles of spatial organization in artC. W. TylerThe origins of entasis: illusion, aesthetics or engineering?P. Thompson, G. Papadopoulou and E. VassiliouBrain activity accompanying perception of implied motion in abstract paintingsC.-Y. Kim and R. Blake Designing visually rich, nearly random texturesJ. NinioPiranesi and the infinite prisonsS. RoncatoGender’s effect on the hemispheric laterality of Rembrandt’s portraitsJ. A. SchirilloArtful visionsN. J. Wade Visual interest in pictorial art during an aesthetic experienceP. Locher, E. A. Krupinski, C. Mello-Thoms and C. F. Nodine Art pieces that ‘move’ in our minds— an explanation of illusory motion based on depth reversalT. V. PapathomasA universal model of esthetic perception based on the sensory coding of natural stimuliC. Redies Portraits and perception: configural information in creating and recognizing face imagesB. J. Balas and P. SinhaFractal-like image statistics in visual art: similarity to natural scenesC. Redies, J. Hasenstein and J. Denzler Statistical regularities of art images and natural scenes: spectra, sparseness and nonlinearitiesD. J. Graham and D. J. Field Examining art: dissociating pattern and perceptual influences on oculomotor behaviourB. W. Tatler, N. J. Wade and K. Kaulard The science and craft of autostereogramsJ. Ninio Index Color plates I–XVI