Iconic blots of ink on today's Google Doodle honor Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday. But over a century later, the validity of his famous psychological test—the Rorschach—depends ...

April 2 marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Hermann Rorschach, the Swiss psychoanalyst who propounded the Rorschach inkblot test, still used as a means of evaluating mental conditions. The ...

The red-and-black splashes on the card are bustling with images: bad-tempered crows, a butterfly and even a couple of blood-stained kidneys. You, however, would see other things, for this card and ...

The Rorschach test has permeated the collective imagination perhaps more than any other psychological tool. The image of the impassive doctor, holding aloft a series of inkblots and asking, “What do ...

Watchmen, the blockbuster film adaptation of a beloved graphic novel, opens Friday. The movie’s vigilante hero, Rorschach, spends much of his screen time hidden behind an ink-splattered mask. We’re ...

Hermann Rorschach was not the first psychiatrist to experiment with inkblots, and the origins of his famous test are not entirely clear. But, according to Rorschach lore, he may have been inspired by ...

Can a computer tell this looks like a deamon*? Source: Wikimedia Here's an important thing to know about artificial intelligence: it is not very good with pictures. It can't really tell what a picture ...

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I’ve spent the last hour glued to the screen, mesmerized by the art of Hugues Bruyère. I kept looking at his video loops again and again, scrolling down his Threads homepage, hypnotized. I’ve never ...

Can a computer tell this looks like a deamon*? Source: Wikimedia Here's an important thing to know about artificial intelligence: it is not very good with pictures. It can't really tell what a picture ...