Willem de Poorter: Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt Pupil

Willem A . de Graaf

Pupil Dilations Reflect Why Rembrandt Biased Female Portraits Leftward and Males Rightward

Portrait painters are experts at examining faces and since emotional content may be expressed differently on each side of the face, consider that Rembrandt biased his male portraits to show their right-cheek more often and female portraits to show their left-cheek more often. This raises questions regarding the emotional significance of such biased positions. I presented rightward and leftward ...

Rembrandt

This is the first of a series of monographs, "The great painters and their works as seen by a doctor." The series is to be edited b}' Dr. de Lint, the writer of this monograph. The monographs will presumably all be in the English language as there is no mention of this monograph being a translation, although it is printed at The Hague and the style has that somewhat stilted character so familia...

Hendrik Poorter á

Factors that contribute to interspeci®c variation in photosynthetic nitrogen-use eciency (PNUE, the ratio of CO2 assimilation rate to leaf organic nitrogen content) were investigated, comparing ten dicotyledonous species that di€er inherently in speci®c leaf area (SLA, leaf area:leaf dry mass). Plants were grown hydroponically in controlled environment cabinets at two irradiances (200 and 1000...

Revealing Rembrandt

The power and significance of artwork in shaping human cognition is self-evident. The starting point for our empirical investigations is the view that the task of neuroscience is to integrate itself with other forms of knowledge, rather than to seek to supplant them. In our recent work, we examined a particular aspect of the appreciation of artwork using present-day functional magnetic resonanc...