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What makes Mona Lisa’s smile so intriguing? What makes Picasso’s portraits so compelling? Kurt Andersen hosts artists Chuck Close and Devorah Sperber, with neuroscientists Margaret Livingstone, Chris Tyler and Ken Nakayama, as they examine the power of brain imaging technology to illuminate how we perceive the most intimate yet public of features, the human face.Learn More

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TOPICS: Art & Science, Mind & Brain

TAGS: 2009, art, brain imaging, brain imaging technology, Christopher Tyler, Chuck Close, Devorah Sperber, Face Blindness, face perception, full program, human face, Ken Nakayama, Margaret Livingstone, Mona Lisa, neurobiology, neuroscience, New York, New York City, NYC, Picasso, Portraits of Perception

PLAYLISTS: Science & the Arts

Video Duration: 01:29:43

Original Program Date: Friday, June 12, 2009

Moderator: Kurt Andersen

Participants: Chuck Close, Christopher W. Tyler, Devorah Sperber, Ken Nakayama, Margaret S. Livingstone

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Physics & Mathematics
Portraits of Perception with Chuck Close

What makes Mona Lisa’s smile so intriguing? What makes Picasso’s portraits so compelling? Kurt Andersen hosts artists Chuck Close and Devorah Sperber, with neuroscientists Margaret Livingstone, Chris Tyler and Ken Nakayama, as they examine the power of brain imaging technology to illuminate how we perceive the most intimate yet public of features, the human face.Learn More

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TOPICS: Art & Science, Biology & Origins of Life, Earth & Environment, Mind & Brain, Physics & Math, Science in Society, Science Unplugged, Space & The Cosmos, Technology & Engineering, Your Daily Equation, Youth & Education

TAGS: 2009, art, brain imaging, brain imaging technology, Christopher Tyler, Chuck Close, Devorah Sperber, Face Blindness, face perception, full program, human face, Ken Nakayama, Margaret Livingstone, Mona Lisa, neurobiology, neuroscience, New York, New York City, NYC, Picasso, Portraits of Perception, 2009, art, brain imaging, brain imaging technology, Christopher Tyler, Chuck Close, Devorah Sperber, Face Blindness, face perception, full program, human face, Ken Nakayama, Margaret Livingstone, Mona Lisa, neurobiology, neuroscience, New York, New York City, NYC, Picasso, Portraits of Perception

PLAYLISTS: Science & the Arts

Video Duration: 01:29:43

Original Program Date: Friday, June 12, 2009

Moderator: Kurt Andersen

Participants: Chuck Close, Christopher W. Tyler, Devorah Sperber, Ken Nakayama, Margaret S. Livingstone

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