Tag: Brain

  • How Mysticism Affects the Brain

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    Douglas Todd writes about research being conducted by “non-traditional” neuroscientists that indicates that current scientific left-brain, right-brain theories are far too simplistic: …researchers such as Beauregard are discovering that spiritual and artistic states are linked with all parts of the brain, including white matter, grey matter, the temporal lobe and the postulate cingulate cortex. In other…

  • Poetry: Music to the Mind

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    Scientists at the University of Exeter have found that poetry arouses the same regions of the brain as those that respond to music. In research published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies, the team found activity in a “reading network” of brain areas which was activated in response to any written material. But they also found…

  • Art Excites The Whole Brain

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    For those of us whose appreciation for art is simply a personal asthetic, a kind of “aha this speaks to me,” Arthur Shimamura’s article in the Oxford University Press may shed some light on how our brains experience it: …over the past two decades, neuroimaging research has advanced our understanding of the biological bases of many…