Art and science can seem so different. Scientists work in teams, in the laboratory; their progress is piecemeal and, by-and-large, they know how to measure its occurrence. Art, so often at least, in ...

Eighty turn-of-the-century drawings by the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal are currently on display at the Ackland, offering a unique vantage into the intersecting fields of art and ...

In 1894, Santiago Ramón y Cajal stated that the “cerebral cortex is similar to a garden filled with innumerable trees, the pyramidal cells, which can multiply their branches thanks to intelligent ...

“Drawing and the Brain,” a symposium gathering artists, architects, and scientists convenes to discuss the primacy of the sketch as the creative tool of invention and discovery in architecture. The ...

Coloring, doodling and drawing all showed significant bloodflow in the section of the brain related to feeling rewarded, a new study by an art therapist found. Your brain's reward pathways become ...

Asking scientists what career they would have pursued if they hadn’t gone into science is a crapshoot: It can either stop the conversation cold or uncork misty-eyed reminiscences about the road not ...

On a recent visit to the Museum of Science in Valencia, Spain, I saw an exhibit of original drawings by Santiago Ramon y Cajal, the great Spanish neurobiologist. They took me on a distinctive inward ...

In 1979, Betty Edwards published the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, which remains the preeminent book on the subject of drawing for beginners. In the book, Edwards argues that there are ...

There are two sides to every brain, at least metaphorically. People don't use one side of the brain more than the other, yet the language is apt for explaining two different personality types. Those ...

A lot of my free time is spent doodling. I'm a journalist on NPR's science desk by day. But all the time in between, I am an artist — specifically, a cartoonist. I draw in between tasks. I sketch at ...

Your brain’s reward pathways become active during art-making activities like doodling, according to a new Drexel University study. Girija Kaimal, EdD, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and ...