For the study, 10 participants viewed color photographs and line drawings of six categories of scenes -- beaches, city streets, forests, highways, mountains and offices -- while their brains were ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study using sophisticated brain scans shows how simple line drawings can capture the essence of a beach or a mountain for viewers just as well as a photograph would ...

Simple line drawings suffice for functional MRI decoding of natural scene categories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015666108 ...