“Drawing and the Brain,” a symposium gathering artists, architects, and scientists convenes to discuss the primacy of the sketch as the creative tool of invention and discovery in architecture. The ...

Eighty turn-of-the-century drawings by the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal are currently on display at the Ackland, offering a unique vantage into the intersecting fields of art and ...

Coloring, doodling and drawing all showed significant bloodflow in the section of the brain related to feeling rewarded, a new study by an art therapist found. Your brain's reward pathways become ...

Making art is fun. But there's a lot more to it. It might serve an evolutionary purpose — and emerging research shows that it can help us... A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist ...

In 1979, Betty Edwards published the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which remains the preeminent book on the subject of drawing for beginners. In the book, Edwards argues that there are ...

Asking scientists what career they would have pursued if they hadn’t gone into science is a crapshoot: It can either stop the conversation cold or uncork misty-eyed reminiscences about the road not ...

On a recent visit to the Museum of Science in Valencia, Spain, I saw an exhibit of original drawings by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the great Spanish neurobiologist. They took me on a distinctive inward ...

There are two sides to every brain, at least metaphorically. People don't use one side of the brain more than the other, yet the language is apt for explaining two different personality types. Those ...

Your brain’s reward pathways become active during art-making activities like doodling, according to a new Drexel University study. Girija Kaimal, EdD, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and ...