They also conducted experiments that tracked people’s eye movements and recorded their brain activity as they viewed sets of images—both in the lab and in a gallery. There was more stable integrative brain processing when people looked at real art versus pseudo-art, and the eye movements mapped neatly onto the previously identified topological features, suggesting a link between topologically derived image features, eye movement, and aesthetic experience.
PLoS Computational Biology, 2026. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014156.
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Credit: Complexity Science Hub (CSH)
Credit: Complexity Science Hub (CSH)
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