Learning by looking : the case for visual-perceptual repetition priming

Sometimes scholars complain that students and lay public are not able to watch an artistic exhibit displayed in a museum of fine arts. Watching is a learned skill that is neither innate nor spontaneous. Onlookers would benefit from a method that may enhance their visual skills. The goal of this paper is to assess whether a model based on visual-perceptual priming, a kind of implicit memory, may improve the methodology of looking. In this work we also present some preliminary results of a new promising approach consisting in analysing subjects’ brain signals collected by an EEG-based device during the verification phase of the performed experiment