Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.

Yet, this simplicity led us directly to the underlying mechanism, helping resolve a long-standing question in the neuroscience literature: why do we see value signals in the brain literally all the ...

Famous works of abstract art achieve popularity by using shapes that resonate with the neural mechanisms in the brain linked to visual information, a psychologist has discovered.

This is the fifth article in the Mind Matters series on the neuroscience behind visual illusions. Scientists did not invent the vast majority of visual illusions. Rather, they are the work of ...

Ironically, the most abstract designs of the prehistoric era may have required the least symbolic thinking. So is it art or just an artifact of neuroscience?

The ventral temporal cortex (VTC) rapidly and flexibly categorizes visual stimuli. In this Review, Grill-Spector and Weiner discuss how the structural features of the VTC support the computations ...

Artificial Intelligence has learned to master language, generate art, and even beat grandmasters at chess. But can it crack the code of abstract reasoning --t hose tricky visual puzzles that leave ...