Ever wonder what makes your artist brain so awesome? Let’s explore how and why artist brains are TOPS when it comes creative thinking, visual problem-solving, and self-expression! 🎨

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:07 Beautiful Brains
02:02 So Many Neurons
02:40 How it relates to artists
03:31 Bigger and Smaller
05:05 Brain waves of bliss
06:42 Zoning Out or Tuning In
08:43 Neuroplasticity + Neurogenesis
10:48 What to do with this information
12:54 Embrace your artist brain!

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Brain Model
I bought this model brain from Amazon.
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BOOKS that helped inspire this video

▶ Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us https://geni.us/Your-Brain-On-Art-Book
▶ Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst https://geni.us/Behave-book
▶ Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience https://geni.us/Flow-book
▶ Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity https://geni.us/Mindwandering

STUDIES

▶ The artist emerges: visual art learning alters neural structure and function https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25463...

▶ The creative brain: investigation of brain activity during creative problem solving by means of EEG and FMRI https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18266...

▶ Robust prediction of individual creative ability from brain functional connectivity https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...

▶ The brain on art: intense aesthetic experience activates the default mode network https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/...

▶ Functional near-infrared spectroscopy assessment of reward perception based on visual self-expression: Coloring, doodling, and free drawing https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

▶ EEG alpha power and creative ideation https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

▶ Functional role of frontal alpha oscillations in creativity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

▶ EEG Correlates of the Flow State: A Combination of Increased Frontal Theta and Moderate Frontocentral Alpha Rhythm in the Mental Arithmetic Task https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/...

ARTICLES

▶ Artists 'have structurally different brains' https://www.bbc.com/news/science-envi...

▶ Are some people born creative? ****https://www.theguardian.com/science/b...

▶ The Unleashed Mind: Why Creative People Are Eccentric https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...

▶ Making or appreciating art can improve your health, regardless of how much you know about it https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/31/health...

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