UCSB Reads Author Event Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross

Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

“Your Brain on Art explores the new science of neuroaesthetics, a way of reimagining how to live that includes art as an essential part of the human experience and an unexpected doorway to healing.” – Mark Hyman, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Young Forever

Can visiting a museum help someone conquer feelings of loneliness, or even stave off the advent of dementia? In Your Brain on Art, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross explore the wide variety of connections that contemporary neuroscience has established between artistic practice, aesthetic experience and optimal cognitive functioning. Susan Magsamen is the founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University. Ivy Ross is the vice president of hardware design at Google.

Register for the free lecture through UCSB Reads Arts & Lectures online:

https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/events-tickets/events/23-24/susan-magsamen-and-ivy-ross/

Register through this email with SBCPA for the lecture and book discussion group to follow on May 11 at 1pm at Shoreline park with coffee, tea, and treats (exact location to be shared with registrants).

And/or read the book, which is available at Chaucers, Amazon, and other book retailers.