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

2019; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 10; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/2041669518821702

ISSN

2041-6695

Autores

Gernot Horstmann, Sebastian Loth,

Tópico(s)

Aesthetic Perception and Analysis

Resumo

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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