Real art in museums stimulates brain much more than reprints, study finds

Scientists in Netherlands using eye-tracking and MRI scans found ‘enormous difference’ between genuine works and postersIt was a truth known to Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell back in 1968, but now scientists have caught up with them: there really ain’t nothing like the real thing.A neurological study in the Netherlands has revealed that real works of art in a museum stimulate the brain in a way that is 10 times stronger than looking at a poster. Continue reading...