Simone Schnall - Neuroaesthetics: How the Brain Explains Art

What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts affect the brain? How different? How similar? Free access to Closer to Truth’s library of 5,000 videos: Watch more interviews on Neuroaesthetics: Simone Schnall is a Reader in Experimental Social Psychology and the Director of Studies in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Jesus College, Cambridge. Register for free at for subscriber-only exclusives: Closer to Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.