PMID: 16619955Apr 20, 2006Paper

The Mona Lisa effect: is 'our' Lisa fame or fake?

Perception
Claus-Christian Carbon, Helmut Leder

Abstract

This demonstration uses one of the most famous human faces, the portrait of Mona Lisa, La Gioconda, by Leonardo da Vinci. Usually, we have a very accurate and stable representation of the exact configuration of such a familiar face. Typically, we are able to rapidly recognise even subtle configural changes. However, here we show that an exposure to specific alterations performed on a familiar face substantially reduces this ability even over a time period as long as 80 min. This demonstration illustrates the flexibility of the perceptual system and adaptation to new information.

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Citations

Jul 24, 2010·Psychological Research·Jun'ichiro Seyama, Ruth S Nagayama
May 4, 2011·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Nick E Barraclough, David I Perrett
May 4, 2011·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences·Michael A Webster, Donald I A MacLeod
Feb 13, 2008·Memory & Cognition·Claus-Christian CarbonGyula Kovács
Mar 20, 2010·Acta Psychologica·Claus-Christian Carbon
Oct 13, 2011·British Journal of Psychology·Linda Jeffery, Gillian Rhodes
Jan 1, 2009·Perception·Birgit DerntlClaus-Christian Carbon
Jan 1, 2011·I-Perception·Claus-Christian Carbon
Nov 12, 2017·Perception·Candace E Peacock, Filiz Gözenman
Mar 3, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Ronja MuellerTilo Strobach

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