Researchers at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute found that people’s brain activity varied more when viewing abstract art, as compared with representational art. This was especially true in the default ...

We are using Society for Neuroscience guidelines for abstract submission, with the exception that there is no fee for abstract submission, and content presented at other meetings may be presented here ...

Kevin Mack is an Oscar-winning visual effects artist and abstract artist who creates digital spaces with fluidly moving textures that are awe-inspiring in their ability to create a novel experience ...

Click through our gallery of some of the most beautiful artwork from the prehistoric era. Here, a bison graces the Cave of Altamira’s 25,000-year-old Hall of Polychromes. Its meaty body overwhelms its ...

The Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions (HCHDS) at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is now accepting abstracts for poster presentations at the fourth annual HCHDS ...

Researchers have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the brain behind how abstract concepts, like justice, ethics and consciousness, ...

A new review explores the different areas of the brain that process the meaning of concrete and abstract concepts. The article is published ahead of print in the Journal of Neurophysiology (JNP). The ...