Anyone who might be interested in this New York Times article can find it at
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/21/science/21MONA.html . Here is a taste:
The Italians have a word to explain Mona Lisa's smile:
sfumato. It means blurry, ambiguous and up to the imagination.
But now, according to Dr. Margaret Livingstone, a Harvard
neuroscientist, there is another, more concrete explanation.
Mona Lisa's smile comes and goes, she says, because of
how the human visual system is designed, not because
the expression is ambiguous.
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