Special circuits in the ... organize what one sees into a "whole" even as one's attention is focused only on one part of a scene. The figure is famous: a deceptively simple line drawing that ...

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 ...

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 ...

In regulating difficult emotions like distress, which I discussed in my last blog, we have to rely on using our whole brain ... them on paper. Drawing is one powerful way to access emotions ...

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 ...

A new study is among the first of its kind to separate activity relating to emotion ... brain activity was recorded in an fMRI scanner as they viewed images that were likely to draw a negative ...

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, ...

Thank the human brain and how it regulates emotions, which can be critical ... recorded in an fMRI scanner as they viewed images that were likely to draw a negative reaction such as a bloody ...