{"id":6834,"date":"2019-01-20T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=6834"},"modified":"2019-04-11T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:37:23","slug":"soranzo-mona-lisa-ars-technica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/soranzo-mona-lisa-ars-technica\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Alessandro Soranzo’s research referenced in Ars Technica feature on Mona Lisa’s smile"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research led by Dr Alessandro Soranzo<\/a> in 2015 looking to Mona Lisa’s smile has been referenced by Ars Technica, for a feature<\/a> on the so-called ‘Mona Lisa Effect’.<\/p>\n

Dr Alessandro Soranzo<\/a>\u00a0is a Reader in Psychology within the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. Alessandro’s\u00a0research interests are in the field of visual cognition and in particular colour perception, perception of art, visual attention and human\/robot interaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research led by Dr Alessandro Soranzo in 2015 looking to Mona Lisa’s smile has been referenced by Ars Technica, for a feature on the so-called ‘Mona Lisa Effect’. Dr Alessandro Soranzo\u00a0is a Reader in Psychology within the Faculty of Development and Society at Sheffield Hallam University. Alessandro’s\u00a0research interests are in the field of visual cognition and in particular colour perception, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":6837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,196,558,555,193],"class_list":["post-6834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-alessandro-soranzo","tag-mona-lisa","tag-painting","tag-visual-perception"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-SORANZO-Ars-Technica.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-1Me","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3507,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/alessandro-soranzo-da-vinci\/","url_meta":{"origin":6834,"position":0},"title":"Dr Alessandro Soranzo’s research referenced in new book on Leonardo da Vinci","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"02\/11\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Leonardo da Vinci: A Biography by Professor of History Walter Isaacson was published last month on 17 October 2017 and reveals Leonardo da Vinci visited a morgue to perfect Mona Lisa's smile. 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