Scientists in Netherlands using eye-tracking and MRI scans found ‘enormous difference’ between genuine works and posters
Volunteers were attached to a brain scanner and eye-tracking equipment and asked to look at five paintings in the museum, plus posters of them in the museum shop.Volunteers were attached to a brain scanner and eye-tracking equipment and asked to look at five paintings in the museum, plus posters of them in the museum shop.
Gosselink said she had been convinced of the power of the real before the study but had wanted her hunch to be formally investigated. “We all feel the difference – but is it measurable, is it real?” she said she had asked her colleagues a year ago. “Now, today we can really say that it is true.”Girl with a Pearl Earring drew the eye in what researchers described as a ‘sustained attention loop’ between the girl’s eye, mouth and earring.
Researchers also looked at the effects of images of real works versus reproductions flashed on to volunteers’ goggles, inside a University of Amsterdam functional MRI scanning machine. “If you want to know what people think, it is better to measure it than to ask them,” he said. “The results were extraordinary.”
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