ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2022
More Than Meets the Eye: Art Engages the Social Brain.
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- The effects of visual art therapy in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
- Healing potential of art therapy: a narrative review of neuro-psycho-cultural mechanisms in mental health.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Mapping the brain networks underlying creativity enhancement via aesthetic experience.European journal of medical research · 2025Review
- Memory reconsolidation: a proposed change mechanism for the arts therapies.Frontiers in cognition · 2025Article
- Neuroscience-based relational art therapy and deep brain reorienting in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Imagination vs. routines: festive time, weekly time, and the predictive brain.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- How the arts heal: a review of the neural mechanisms behind the therapeutic effects of creative arts on mental and physical health.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- A conceptual framework for a neurophysiological basis of art therapy for PTSD.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Review
- Pupil responses to colorfulness are selectively reduced in healthy older adults.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The architecture of abnormal reward behaviour in dementia: multimodal hedonic phenotypes and brain substrate.Brain communications · 2023Article
- Thinking eyes: visual thinking strategies and the social brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Here we present the viewpoint that art essentially engages the social brain, by demonstrating how art processing maps onto the social brain connectome-the most comprehensive diagram of the neural dynamics that regulate human social cognition to date. We start with a brief history of the rise of neuroaesthetics as the scientific study of art perception and appreciation, in relation to developments in contemporary art practice and theory during the same period. Building further on a growing awareness of the importance of social context in art production and appreciation, we then set out how art engages the social brain and outline candidate components of the "artistic brain connectome." We explain how our functional model for art as a social brain phenomenon may operate when engaging with artworks. We call for closer collaborations between the burgeoning field of neuroaesthetics and arts professionals, cultural institutions and diverse audiences in order to fully delineate and contextualize this model. Complementary to the unquestionable value of art for art's sake, we argue that its neural grounding in the social brain raises important practical implications for mental health, and the care of people living with dementia and other neurological conditions.
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