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The arts, in its countless forms, transform our minds and bodies

A male artist painting a large canvas
A male artist painting a large canvas
Beautiful landscape
Lights art installation
Botanical garden
DJ playing set in dark
DJ Set representing sound
Sculpting clay
Two breakdancers in an outside urban environment

When arts enliven our senses

The brain's response is wild

When arts enliven our senses. The brain's response is wild
The more we immerse ourselves in arts and aesthetics the healthier and happier we become.
What is NeuroArts?

Neuroarts is the study of how the arts and aesthetic experiences measurably change the body, brain, and behavior- and how this knowledge is translated into practices that advance health, wellbeing and learning.

Researchers are discovering the arts alter a complex physiological network of interconnected systems—including neural circuitry, circulatory, respiratory, immune and endocrine and psychological – like nothing else.

ARTS
TECHNOLOGY
HEALTH &
SCIENCE
Neuroarts

Our goal is to help people around the world transform their lives through the power of the arts.

“We’re standing on the verge of a cultural shift in which the arts can deliver potent, accessible proven health and well-being solutions to billions
of people.”

Ivy Ross + Susan Magsamen

Ivy and Susan work at the crossroads of arts and sciences, sharing and using the growing body of evidence – from neuroscience, psychology, public health, social sciences, the arts and other fields – that are proving the arts generative impact.

Ivy
Ross

Vice President Hardware Design, Google

Susan
Magsamen

Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Johns Hopkins University

We wrote this book for everyone

For those who have had little experience with the arts and sciences, and for people who are in these fields. Through compelling stories we share the research and the impact of the arts in our lives.

We hope it will enrich and inspire you, your family, colleagues and community.

Neuroarts is about enlivening your senses

Coming to life through
vision, touch, smell, color,
movement and sound

Touch
Touch
Touch
Touch
Touch
Two hands rubbing together
Touch
Touch
Touch
Touch
Touch
Two hands rubbing together
Touch
Touch
Touch
Touch
Touch
Two hands rubbing together
Smell
Smell
Smell
Smell
Smell
A little girl smelling a flower
Color
Color
Color
Color
Color
A boy with coloured chalk dust on his face
Sound
Sound
Sound
Sound
Sound
Movement
Movement
Movement
Movement
Movement
Ripples on the water
Vision
Vision
Vision
Vision
Vision
Close up of eye
Explore
your
aesthetic
mind

and the ways in which aesthetics and the arts affect you through our Aesthetic Mindset Index.

Join us to receive more information about your brain on art and the field of neuroarts

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