Viewing art is good for us, but new research may now tell us why — and that therapeutic uses may be better than previously ...

This is your brain on art: A neuroscientist’s lessons on why abstract art makes our brains hurt so good It took a Nobel-winning scientist who specializes in human memory to break new ground in ...

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.When you look at an abstract painting, study it for a ...

04/08/2025 April 8, 2025. Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently.

Researchers studying people's brain activity when looking at abstract art have revealed why we interpret blobs of paint on canvas so differently. When you look at an abstract painting, study it in ...

Researchers find abstract art evokes a more abstract mindset than representational art Aug 4, 2020 International collaboration reveals how the human brain evolved to harness abstract thought ...

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 ...

So a liking for abstract art can’t be explained by peer pressure. Yet Hawley-Dolan’s experiment didn’t explain how we detect the hand of the human artist, nor the reason why the paintings ...

What prehistoric art tells us about the evolution of the human brain. By Katy Waldman Click through our gallery of some of the most beautiful artwork from the prehistoric era.

The study is small—only nine subjects—but an analysis of the electroencephalograms, or EEG tests, suggests “that the human brain doesn’t differentiate between digitally reproduced artworks ...