But this aspect of beauty might instead be a by-product of how the brain works, says Marcos Nadal, a psychologist at the University of Vienna who studies aesthetic experiences. Processing faces is ...

What does aesthetic mean to you ... could be uninteresting to someone else.But what’s happening in your brain when you enjoy looking at something? In a new study, researchers from Germany ...

The field of “neuroaesthetics” has adopted this distinction between art and non-art objects by seeking to identify brain areas that specifically mediate the aesthetic appreciation of artworks.

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

On the one hand, neuroaestheticians talk about how the structure of the brain determines our range of available aesthetic experiences: for instance, we rely on our color vision to appreciate a ...

A new exhibit, "Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience," explores that question by examining how the brain processes aesthetic experiences. Stephanie Sy reports from ...

Between the aesthetics of gull chicks and the sublime beauty of a Monet, we have a long journey ahead to truly understand visual processing in the brain. Meanwhile our studies have given us ...

How to bring art into your life In “Your Brain on Art,” Magsamen and Ross offer a vision of what a life lived with an aesthetic mind-set could look like. Here are some ways Magsamen suggests ...

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.

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 ...