Patterns in brain activity can be used to determine whether someone
is looking at a surrealist landscape by Salvador Dali or the cubist
lines of Pablo Picasso.
Yukiyasu Kamitani of ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories in
Kyoto, Japan, and colleagues showed 12 students dozens of Picassos
and Dalis while scanning their brains using functional MRI. A program
then identified patterns in activity that were unique to each artist.
When fed brain scans produced by students looking at fresh paintings
by the same artists, the program correctly identified the painter
better than chance alone: it was correct 83 per cent of the time
among the six students who were art majors and 62 per cent of the
time among the others.
<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427365.900-brain-scanner-can-tell-a-dali-from-a-picasso.html>Link
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