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What looking at art does to your brain
When seeing a great work of art, does your heart race? Do the hairs on your arms stand on end? Maybe you don't feel anything at all.
Tamar Torrance is a PhD student at the University of Auckland.
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Tamar Torrance is a PhD researcher at the University of Auckland.
Working in the relatively new field of neuroaesthetics, Tamar is conducting research into what goes on in our brains and bodies when viewing art online, in person, and through VR.
She joins Emile to discuss how art and beauty can affect us physically and mentally.
Photo:
Henry Fuseli / Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, gift of Sir George Grey, 1887
Study for the three witches in Macbeth
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Henry Fuseli / Public domain
