surrealism

6 02, 2015

Surrealistic Art Makes More Sense After Contemplating Death: MRI Study

2015-02-06T20:29:02-05:00February 6th, 2015|Brain MRI, Medical Imaging, MRI, MRI Research, Radiology|

In this unusual study, researchers used MRI to measure how certain triggers (associations with dental pain vs. contemplating one's own mortality) could affect the human brain's affinity for understanding surrealistic artworks. The study, called Ceci n'est pas la mort: Evidence for the recruitment of self-reference from surrealistic art under mortality salience, was published in the [...]