When you stand in front of Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl With The Pearl Earring,” something extraordinary happens in your brain. The 17th-century Dutch painting has long mesmerized viewers, but ...

Stock image of a girl hiding her face with her hands as her nails are covered in bright nail art. One woman was showing TikTok how "cute" her new set was, until her "girl brain" ...

Seeing Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ in Person Stimulates the Brain More Than Looking at Reprints, Study Suggests Scientists used EEG headsets, MRI machines and eye trackers to study ...

Art can make the brain's wiring stronger, more flexible and ready to learn, say the authors of a new book, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.