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This is a doodle the author provided. It looks like a brain with tiny images of squares, circles and other shapes mixed together

·December 28, 2021·4 min read

Have You Fallen for the Myth of ‘I Can’t Draw’? Do It Anyway – And Reap the Rewards

Researchers say whether you are a competent artist or not, drawing and doodling can have a positive effect on your mental health and help boost creativity.

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·October 16, 2021·4 min read

AI Used to Reproduce Lost Picasso Nude

A painting of a naked woman by Picasso has been hidden under one of his "Blue Period" works for almost a century. With the help of artificial intelligence, researchers have been able to reproduce the lost painting.

This shows Van Gogh's portrait with the hotspots mapped out

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·September 13, 2021·6 min read

What Was Really the Secret Behind Van Gogh’s Success?

A new deep learning algorithm identified key features underlying success in the art world. Researchers report a link between exploration and exploitation was associated with artistic success.

This shows the art work generated of a mountain range and stars

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·September 8, 2021·4 min read

What the Brain Shows: The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Creative Arts Therapies

Reduced activity in the prefrontal cortex during virtual reality creative self-expression tasks indicates an enhanced relaxation response.

This is a painting by Joseph Schillinger

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·June 16, 2021·6 min read

Computers Predict People’s Tastes in Art

Artificial intelligence technology is able to break down a painting's visual attributes. Trained by data from online users, the deep convolutional neural network was accurately able to predict an individual's taste in art.

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·June 2, 2021·8 min read

How HIV Infection Shrinks the Brain’s White Matter

HIV infection prevents myelin-associated oligodendrocytes from maturing, this, in turn, hampers white matter production in the brain.

This shows a human hand handing over a lightbulb to a blue hand

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·May 25, 2021·3 min read

Aesthetically Appealing Art Increases Creative Inspiration

Viewing art you find aesthetically pleasing can help boost your personal creativity, researchers report.

This shows abstract art with lots of bright colors and swirls

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·April 24, 2021·5 min read

What Parkinson’s Disease Patients Reveal About How Art Is Experienced and Valued

Impaired motor function, such as that experienced by Parkinson's patients, appears to influence the perception of art, researchers report.

This shows generated images of horses in hats

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·August 20, 2020·6 min read

Rewriting the Rules of Machine-Generated Art

Deep layers of artificial neural networks can be edited to generate surprising and abstract images.

This is a child's drawing of a day at a beach

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·June 22, 2020·3 min read

Quantifying creativity to expand it? Better art begins with better understanding

Mixing materials allow for more varied and nuanced expressions of artistic creativity in children.

This shows a woman looking at paintings in a gallery

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·November 20, 2019·3 min read

Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder

When we see a painting, we rate its aesthetic value based upon other artwork we have just seen.

$This shows a math equation$

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·August 10, 2019·6 min read

We like our math like we like our art: Beautiful

The average American can assess mathematical arguments for beauty just as they can for art or music. Using nine criteria for beauty, including elegance, intricacy, and universality, people were more likely to agree about the specific ways four different proofs were beautiful. The study sheds new light on broader issues in how and why humans have aesthetic experiences of abstract ideas.

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Have You Fallen for the Myth of ‘I Can’t Draw’? Do It Anyway – And Reap the Rewards

AI Used to Reproduce Lost Picasso Nude

What Was Really the Secret Behind Van Gogh’s Success?

What the Brain Shows: The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Creative Arts Therapies

Computers Predict People’s Tastes in Art

How HIV Infection Shrinks the Brain’s White Matter

Aesthetically Appealing Art Increases Creative Inspiration

What Parkinson’s Disease Patients Reveal About How Art Is Experienced and Valued

Rewriting the Rules of Machine-Generated Art

Quantifying creativity to expand it? Better art begins with better understanding

Beauty in the biased eye of the beholder

We like our math like we like our art: Beautiful

How Scientists Cracked the Ketamine Code for Depression

Brain Prioritizes “Sound Offsets” During Hearing Repair

Glucose Levels Signal the Growth of Myelin

Why Your Brain “Dreams” Even When You’re Awake

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