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Feeling Artsy? Here's How Making Art Helps Your Brain – NPR
Great article about what art making does for your mind and body. Drawing is a core skill but may be seen as irrelevant if you do not wish to be an artist who's art is drawing. This helps explain how drawing does all sorts of stuff that helps you see, predict, perceive, reflect, feel, imagine and lots of other things useful to all art making and generally being a functioning organism.
What has Sat-Nav done to our brains?
Interesting programme suggests that our sense of identity and our memories are linked to a sense of place and connect the capacity to tell stories about ourselves at a physiological level through the hippocampus. If we learn to know where we are in space by using a map (as opposed to sat-nav) we have develop …
Even a small amount of creativity can help you cope with modern life, reveals new research by BBC Arts and UCL
Good news for those juggling time-pressures in today’s busy, modern life. According to ground breaking research commissioned by BBC Arts, even the briefest time spent on a creative pastime such as painting, pottery or playing the piano, has an impact on our wellbeing and emotions. In the largest study of its kind, with almost 50,000 …
Nature Connectedness: Pro-nature behaviours and the ‘Teenage Dip’ – Results from a population survey
Survey showing that a 'teenage dip' occurs with regards to feelings of connectedness to nature, with some possible explanations.http://findingnature.org.uk/2019/06/12/teenage-dip/ — Read on findingnature.org.uk/2019/06/12/teenage-dip/