Context: A major problem preventing effective counteracting of the projected rise in the burden of COPD is the insufficient awareness of, and nihilism towards this disabling disease among all stakeholders, i.e. general public, patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare payers. Reasons behind this vary from unawareness of the disease by the general public; poor recognition of symptoms as ...

One can infer an artist's identity from his or her artworks, but little is known about the neural representation of such elusive categorization. Here, we constructed a 'neural art appraiser' based on machine-learning methods that predicted the painter from the functional MRI activity pattern elicited by a painting. We found that Dali's and Picasso's artworks could be accurately classified based...

The University of Lethbridge John R. Vokey Department of Psychology and Neuroscience University of Lethbridge Jason M. Tangen Department of Psychology McMaster University ABSTRACT Judgments of style in art, music, and literature are commonplace, although the mechanisms providing for this structural sensitivity are not well understood. Watanabe, Sakamoto, and Wakita (1995) showed that pigeons tr...

Although you do not know the subtleties of Cubism art movement, we that it has important representatives such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. is an movement emerged from collaboration between Braque in France at beginning 20th century. Based on geometric abstraction Fauvism broke many conventions traditional Western styles. Two mostdistinctive features cubist paintings are use abstract, fo...

To those familiar only with Pablo Picasso’s (1881–1973) groundbreaking modernism for which he is renown, his early realistic paintings may seem surprising. Born in the Mediterranean harbor of Málaga, “Pablito” (as Picasso was called by his family) was raised in tight quarters by an incorrigibly optimistic and good humored mother and an unoriginal painter father who “had a twofold problem: the i...