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Mona Lisa's smile mystery solved |
Neuroscientists at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain claim
to have solved the mystery as to why some people see Mona Lisa's smile and some
don't. According to boffins, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is both smiling and
not smiling, depending on what cells in the retina pick up the image and what
channel the image is transmitted through in the brain. "Sometimes one channel
wins over the other, and you see the smile, sometimes others take over and you
don't see the smile," says Luis Martinez Otero, a neuroscientist at Institute
of Neuroscience in Alicante, Spain, who conducted the study along with Diego Alonso
Pablos. To reach the conclusion, scientists used software to track 20 volunteers,
reports New Scientist. The research also showed that Leonardo Da Vinci intentionally
tried to capture both views. The finding was presented at the Society for Neuroscience's
annual meeting in Chicago this week. |
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