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Art can make the brain's wiring stronger, more flexible and ready to learn, say the authors of a new book, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.

Looking at art benefits your brain. Research shows that viewing art has beneficial effects on your brain and psychology. For one, viewing art is a proven stress-reliever.

How our brains react to art. It's in the different ways we interpret art that gives scientists clues about our individual minds, and how the brain constructs subjective experiences.

Both creative production and art viewing involve brain areas related to object recognition, visual-spatial processing, and personal memory. Source: Zalfa Imani/Unsplash.

At Tsinghua University’s Neural Engineering Lab, researchers are using brain-computer interfaces to study how people respond ...

Now, a new book, Your Brain on Art, by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross, helps explain why that might be the case. By focusing in on the science of “neuroaesthetics”—how our brains respond to aesthetic and ...

Universe of Art ho st D. Peterschmidt sits down with the authors of the book, Susan Magsamen, executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab at the Pederson Brain Science Institute at Johns ...

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Having artistic output as a side effect of left-brain damage isn't common, neuroscientists say. "Brain damage does not create anything new," says neuropsychologist Dahlia Zaidel of UCLA.

For professional artists, it's still possible for some of them to produce work of high quality after brain damage. The style may change and whether the work is better or worse is open to debate!