Brain Links Common Emotions to Colors
By RICK NAUERT PHD Senior News Editor of PsychCentral.com Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on May 17, 2013 Emerging research discovers an association between how music makes us feel and colors. That is, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies charge our emotional state. For instance, Mozart’s jaunty “Flute Concerto … Read more
Corridors of the Mind
ARCHITECTS HAVE BEEN talking for years about “biophilic” design, “evidence based” design, design informed by the work of psychologists. But last May, at the profession’s annual convention, John Zeisel and fellow panelists were trying to explain neuroscience to a packed ballroom. The late-afternoon session pushed well past the end of the day; questions just kept coming. … Read more
Thinking Outside The Box, With Our Bodies And Our Brains
A route to freer thinking? Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, U.S. President Barack Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda stroll outdoors for a photo-op at the 2011 APEC summit in Hawaii. Most of us have probably felt the rightness of a decision in our bodies as much as we have … Read more
Fear Helps You Appreciate Abstract Art, Study Finds
Article by Amy Lee @ the Huffington Post The next time you’re having trouble appreciating Jackson Pollock, try seeing a horror movie first. According to a new study, feeling fear may actually help people to better engage with abstract art. In the study, which used 85 Brooklyn College students as a sample, participants were assigned … Read more
