Is It Really a Smile?
这真的是一个微笑吗?
Is the Mona Lisa in Leonardo Da Vinci's masterpiece smiling at us when we look at her?
当我们欣赏列奥纳多·达·芬奇的杰作《蒙娜丽莎》时,她真的在向我们微笑吗?
For years, viewers of the painting have been divided
数年来,观赏画作之人分为两类:
between those who see a little smile and those who don't.
能看到一点点微笑的和看不到微笑的。
But now Spanish researchers may have solved the mystery of the Mona Lisa, reports the UK's Daily Telegraph.
但是据英国《每日电讯报》报道,现在西班牙的研究者们或许已经解开了蒙娜丽莎之谜。
It's not a matter of the painting but the viewer, they say.
他们说,神秘之处不在画本身,而在于观看者。
Whether we think she is smiling or not depends upon which cells in the eye catch the image first
我们是否认为她在微笑取决于我们眼睛的哪些细胞首先捕捉到了形象,
and how information from the image moves through the brain.
以及来自于图像的信息如何在大脑中运行。