Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Roughly speaking, the frontal lobe is responsible for executive functions like planning, attention, and emotion. The temporal lobe, home of the hippocampus, takes care of making memories. The parietal lobe is home to the somatosensory cortex, where information about body sensations like touch and pain is received and interpreted. The occipital lobe
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Sound vibration has the capacity to return the body to homeostasis and out of a fight-flight-freeze reaction.
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
outside world but rather focused internally. It is who you are when untouched by stimuli. This is the place where memories, a collection of events and knowledge about yourself, are housed. It’s known to be the home of mind wandering, dreams, and daydreaming.
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
including parenting, caregiving, and even community service.
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
“When one ponders humans existing less than 0.01% of the species’ history in modern surroundings and the other 99.99% of the time living in nature, it is no wonder some humans yearn and are drawn back to where human physiological/psychological functions began and were naturally supported,”
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
He developed a working theory: Keeping a secret is a form of active inhibition. “Concealing or holding back strong emotions, thoughts, and behaviors…was itself stressful,” he explained in a journal article in 2017. “Further, long-term, low-level stress could influence immune function and physical health.”
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
What if, instead of scrolling on your phone with your morning coffee, you spent twenty minutes drawing in a doodle diary, or creating your own mandala?
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
say, being asked by someone to repeat a word—causes our prefrontal cortex to marshal the brain into a cognitive process and response. Emotions, on the other hand, are processed in the limbic system deep in the brain and are not always consciously registered. Sometimes, our motor areas ignite faster than the prefrontal cortex is able to contextualiz
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It has been used as medicine, dating back to the Greeks, who “prescribed” poetry in conjunction with other medical interventions.