%0 Journal Article
%T The Mona Lisa Illusion¡ªScientists See Her Looking at Them Though She Isn¡¯t
%A Gernot Horstmann
%A Sebastian Loth
%J i
%@ 2041-6695
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/2041669518821702
%X If the person depicted in an image gazes at the camera or painter, a viewer perceives this as being gazed at. The viewers¡¯ perception holds irrespectively of their position relative to image. This is the Mona Lisa effect named after the subject of Leonardo¡¯s famous painting La Gioconda. The effect occurs reliably but was not tested with Mona Lisa herself. Remarkably, viewers judged Mona Lisa¡¯s gaze as directed to their right-hand side irrespectively of the image zoom, its horizontal position on screen, and the distance of the ruler that was used for measuring the gaze direction
%K gaze direction
%K Mona Lisa effect
%K picture perception
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2041669518821702