Creativity isn’t a bolt of lightning. It’s a series of neural negotiations among brain networks that imagine, evaluate, ...

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Today, related studies depend on increasingly sophisticated brain-imaging techniques ... says that neuro­aesthetics undoubtedly “enriches our understanding of human aesthetic experience.” ...

THE BASICS The results revealed that the aesthetic orientation was correlated with activation in the bilateral anterior insula — a region of the brain implicated in the experience of emotion.

Your face flushes. Your breath quickens. The butterflies in your stomach flutter. And then there’s your brain. When you’re happy, its neural nooks and crannies flood with “happiness hormones ...

The team noticed that an area of the brain involved in pleasure called the nucleus accumbens behaved uniquely in response to poetry, showing that listeners can feel the most aesthetic pleasure while ...

While some people may be more interested in swatting flies than studying them, some of the researchers found aesthetic satisfaction peering at the fruit fly brain, less than 0.04 inches (1 mm ...