Emotion is a primary motivator for creative behaviors, yet the interaction between the neural systems involved in creativity and those involved in emotion has not been studied. In the current study, we addressed this gap by using fMRI to examine piano improvisation in response to emotional cues.
Health/Medical
Teaching Artist Training in Creative Aging: A National Survey
As a service to the emerging field of Creative Aging, Lifetime Arts conducted a national survey to investigate and disseminate a more complete picture of teaching artist training in the field.
Arts, Health, and Wellness
This essay looks at changes in the American healthcare system and the role that the arts may play in positively impacting those changes over the next 10–15 years.
Arts, the Environment, and Sustainability
This essay looks at changes related to the environment and issues of sustainability and the role that the arts may play in positively impacting those changes over the next 10–15 years.
Group music-making causes elevated pain thresholds and social bonding in small and large groups of singers
Over our evolutionary history, humans have faced the problem of how to create and maintain social bonds in progressively larger groups compared to those of our primate ancestors. Evidence from historical and anthropological records suggests that group music-making might act as a mechanism by which this large-scale social bonding could occur.
Cortical Thickness Maturation and Duration of Music Training: Health-Promoting Activities Shape Brain Development
Objective
To assess the extent to which playing a musical instrument is associated with cortical thickness development among healthy youths.
