IN THE YouTube age it is easy to forget that artists rely on clever tricks to create a sense of motion in still images. Now brain scans show why one method ... admiring line drawings by Hokusai ...

That’s because the brain is constantly receiving signals from the world, drawing ... s one unified feeling, but it has complex elements, including features of different sources of emotion ...

It helps me make sense of my emotions. And it somehow, it makes me feel calmer and more relaxed. That made me wonder: What is going on in my brain when I draw ... may be one of the reasons ...

"That suggests the brain uses the same information to decode which scene it is viewing when it is presented with line drawings or photos," he said. In addition, results showed that when the ...

A small 2005 study showed participants a picture of someone ... identified the limbic system as one of the main parts of the brain that controls basic emotions. As technology evolves and ...

Drawings of positive emotions were less dense, had more curved or oblique lines and contained brighter colours. Images for joy were predominantly ... Sample colour and line drawings for each emotion, ...

For three minutes each, the participants colored in a mandala, doodled within or around a circle marked on a paper, and had a free-drawing session. During all three activities, there was a measured ...

In a recent experiment, brain scans of people who viewed emotionally provocative pictures and then went to sleep showed that the part of the brain that handles emotions powered down during rapid ...