Conscious Awareness of Objects in Indeterminate ArtFairhall, Scott L. and Pepperell, R and Ishai, A (2007) Conscious Awareness of Objects in Indeterminate Art. In: 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, 23-26 June 2007, Las Vegas. Full text available as:
AbstractIndeterminate art invokes a perceptual dilemma in which apparently detailed and vivid images resist identification. We used event-related fMRI to study visual perception of representational, indeterminate and abstract paintings, and hypothesized increased activation along a gradient of posterior-to-anterior ventral visual areas with increased object resolution. We further predicted that indeterminate, ambiguous paintings would invoke visual imagery-related activation in parietal and prefrontal cortices. Comments/DiscussionA poster reporting on collaborative research between neuroscientists and an artist, investigating the conscious awareness of the subjects when presented with certain categories of artworks.
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