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El Prado turns the gaze into a question for neuroscience
The second Residencia Internacional de Neurociencia y Arte del Prado and Fundación Tatiana will explore how the brain interprets images and creates illusions. Susana Martínez-Conde will give a public lecture on 23 November.
Visual perception and eye movements are part of the work of Susana Martínez-Conde, an internationally recognised neuroscientist and professor at New York University. She also studies consciousness and how the brain processes what we see.
Her participation is central to the second Residencia Internacional de Neurociencia y Arte, organised by the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Centro Internacional de Neurociencia y Ética (CINET) of the Fundación Tatiana. The programme focuses on visual perception and illusions, and also examines the process of artistic creation.
Martínez-Conde will give a public lecture on 23 November at the Museo Nacional del Prado. Her talk will bring some research questions about looking and its relationship with art to a wider audience.
The residency continues the collaboration between the Museo Nacional del Prado and CINET of the Fundación Tatiana. This is the second edition of a project that seeks to bring scientific and humanistic disciplines closer together. The perception of artworks and the mechanisms of the brain provide a meeting point between the two fields. The aim is to incorporate knowledge about the brain into the study and experience of art.