Abstract art dares our visual system to interpret ... This is why he studied giant sea snails to understand the human brain. Sea snails have just 20,000 neurons in their brains, whereas humans ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret ... sophisticated enough to probe the human mind and find any answers.

Well, science has confirmed that abstract art appeals to the human brain and this research is reviewed in an interesting article by Kat Austen in New Scientist, (July 14th, 2012). A new discipline ...

Yet Hawley-Dolan’s experiment didn’t explain how we detect the hand of the human artist ... of understanding how the brain is organised,” says Zeki. Abstract art offers both a challenge ...

HTO, Wikimedia Commons Everyone answers the question “What makes humans human?” in her own way ... of falsehoods that charm the brain.) Cave art illuminates some of the truths of the ...

“At first glance the irregular shapes and geometric patterns of abstract art could appear difficult for the human brain to interpret. Art exhibitions like this one at the Saatchi Gallery in ...

Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute found that people’s brain activity varied more when viewing abstract art, as compared with representational art. This was especially true in the default ...

There may be little difference between the way our brains perceive works of art in person versus through ... suggests “that the human brain doesn’t differentiate between digitally reproduced ...

What do language, music and art have in common? These defining aspects of human intelligence ... the brain into using these newly valuable mental representations to construct abstract thoughts." ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret ... sophisticated enough to probe the human mind and find any answers.