Your Brain on Art

NeuroArts—an interdisciplinary field exploring how artistic practice and brain function interact—reveals that creative engagement reshapes neural pathways, reduces stress and strengthens emotional resilience.

The book Your Brain on Art : How the Arts Transform Us written by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross is a journey of discovery as well as an authoritative guide to the new science of neuroaesthetics: a breakthrough research and insight from multidisciplinary pioneers. Your Brain On Art is a call-to-arms for the radical integration of the arts with science and technology to design a more human future.

The more we immerse ourselves in art and aesthetics the happier and healthier we become. When arts enliven our senses, the brain’s response is wild. As modern life accelerates with digital overload, social isolation, and chronic uncertainty, Your Brain on Art makes the case for neuroaesthetics at a time when all of us can benefit from what our art can do not only for our souls but for our brains.

Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen are working at the crossroads of arts and sciences using the growing body of evidence of neuroscience, psychology,social sciences and public health to prove the generative impact of the arts. Their book Your Brain on Art is widely available and is well worth the read!