Art and Brain Archives

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Calling the Birds Home

In Her Own Words: Photographer Cheryle St. Onge

Cheryle St. Onge's photographs won the annual Bob and Diane Fund award—a grant that increases the understanding of Alzheimer’s and dementia.

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Brain Trees

A sampling of work by Dana Simmons, Ph.D., a neuroscientist who created works of art from the beauty she saw through the use of microscopy to study autism.

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Art on the Spectrum

Showcasing the works and stories of talented, under-the-radar artists with developmental disabilities.

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The Hidden Neuroscience of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo was appreciated in his day for his art, music, and engineering feats, but his findings about the brain went largely unheralded, because his notes and detailed anatomical drawings went unpublished for centuries.

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Podcast with Susan Magsamen, author of Your Aesthetic Brain: A Growing Case for the Arts

On research aimed at the intersection of brain sciences and the arts—and how our response to aesthetic experience can amplify human potential.

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Your Aesthetic Brain: A Growing Case for the Arts

Neuroaesthetics is a new and rapidly expanding field of research that is aimed at the intersection of psychological aesthetics, biological mechanisms, and human evolution.

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SfN18: Pat Metheny at Dialogues Lecture

Pat Metheny, one of the world’s best-known jazz composers, guitar players, and band leaders, took to the stage to talk about his experience with music and how improvisation works in the brain.

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What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain

Dana Alliance member Margaret S. Livingstone, Ph.D., spoke about art and the brain and demonstrated how looking at art reveals the mechanisms at work in our brain behind visual perception.

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Memory as a Creative Act

Dana Alliance member Daphna Shohamy was paired with writer Nicole Krauss for a discussion on creativity and memory at a recent Brainwave event about trauma.