Along with the perks of enjoying and experiencing art, there are real-world benefits to making the art with your own two hands. According to a 2014 study, producing visual art improved psychological resilience and increased brain activity for the participants by the end of the experiment. The study had two groups of recent retirees. One group was given lessons by an art educator and the participants actively created pieces of visual art that displayed their own personal form of artistic expression. The other group was treated more like a discussion class, where they talked about and interpreted selected paintings and sculptures. Both groups had their brains scanned before and after the period of courses. Of the two groups, the one that produced art reaped the neural benefit of increased connectivity in the brains default mode network over the ten weeks of art class. This area deals with cognitive process like introspection, self-monitoring and memory.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 20:05:23 +0000
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