Video Library
This page showcases a curated library of neuroaesthetics and brain science resources featuring videos and talks that explore how art, beauty, and neuroscience interact to shape cognition, creativity, and wellbeing.
Our Collection
This curated collection of videos brings together inspiring stalwarts from the world’s top universities, sharing pioneering insights in neuroaesthetics, neuroscience, art, psychology, and human potential. Each lecture, conference talk, and webinar is thoughtfully gathered for our volunteers, academic members, and professional members to support learning and inspiration. We offer our sincere gratitude to all the creators, researchers, institutions, and platforms whose work is featured here. All content is sourced from publicly available platforms such as YouTube and official websites and is shared strictly for educational, non commercial, and reference purposes. We deeply respect intellectual property and honor every creator’s contribution to global knowledge.
Harnessing the Power of Neuroplasticity
Based on the acclaimed World Science Festival program “The Nuts and Bolts of Better Brains,” the course explores how the brain grows through experience, how emotional development is shaped, and how we can consciously harness plasticity for learning, healing, and creative transformation.
Participants will discover the interplay between stability and flexibility, learn about critical periods in brain development, and explore neuroaesthetic approaches that align artistic expression with cognitive and emotional well-being. Through guided reflections, creative tasks, and scientific insights, learners will bridge the gap between neuroscience and human creativity, understanding not just how the brain works, but how it feels, adapts, and creates.
Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society 2024 - Susan Magsamen
The video "Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society 2024 -Susan Magsamen" features Susan Magsamen, founder of the International Arts + Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins. Delivered at the 2024 Society for Neuroscience conference, it explores neuroaesthetics, showing how engagement with music, visual arts, and dance influences brain function, reduces stress, enhances cognition, and fosters social connection. The talk highlights integrating arts into healthcare, education, and communities to promote holistic well-being, demonstrating the transformative power of creative expression on mental and physical health
Beauty & the Brain
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Anjan Chatterjee, Professor of Neurology, Psychology, and Architecture, University of Pennsylvania; Director, Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics
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Susan Magsamen, Executive Director, International Arts + Mind Lab, Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University; Co-Director, NeuroArts Blueprint Initiative
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Suchi Reddy, Founder and Principal, Reddymade Architecture and Design
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Casey Schwartz, Author, Attention: A Love Story and In the Mind Fields
How Your Brain Decides What Is Beautiful
In his TED Talk, Anjan Chatterjee explores how our brains perceive beauty, examining the neural mechanisms behind aesthetic appreciation. Drawing from cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, he explains why patterns, symmetry, and proportions are universally appealing. The talk highlights how this understanding can inform art, design, and architecture, showing that beauty is influenced by both brain wiring and experience.
Should Architecture Be Beautiful?
Architects traditionally focus on form, function, flow, and sustainability but what role should beauty play in the built environment, and whose perspective determines it? This conversation explores how recent advances in neuroaesthetics may influence the design of the spaces where we live, work, and play. Can biological responses to beauty guide architecture, and if so, what might we be overlooking?
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Philip Kennicott, Senior Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
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Ann Sussman, Architect; President, Human Architecture and Planning Institute; Co-Author, Cognitive Architecture
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Yael Reisner, Architect; Director, Yael Reisner Studio
Composition in Art
Architects traditionally focus on form, function, flow, and sustainability but what role should beauty play in the built environment, and whose perspective determines it? This conversation explores how recent advances in neuroaesthetics may influence the design of the spaces where we live, work, and play. Can biological responses to beauty guide architecture, and if so, what might we be overlooking?
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Philip Kennicott, Senior Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
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Ann Sussman, Architect; President, Human Architecture and Planning Institute; Co-Author, Cognitive Architecture
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Yael Reisner, Architect; Director, Yael Reisner Studio
Bridging Creativity & Care: Exploring Art Therapy and Community Art-Making for Health and Healing
Arts & Health | Health Benefits of Arts Engagement
Where Art Meets Impact: Episode 1
Where Art Meets Impact: Episode 2
Anjan Chatterjee, Professor and Chair of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania, presents the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2015 keynote, exploring the neuroscience of art, beauty, and the evolutionary roots of aesthetic experience.
This presentation examines how the brain supports aesthetic appreciation across art, music, dance, and architecture, highlighting core neural systems that integrate perception, emotion, cognition, and context within contemporary arts and health research.
This Dr. Lawrence H. and Roberta Cohn Forum brings together neuroscience, public health, and art leaders to explore how creativity and NeuroArts research advance well being, healing, and arts based wellness programs.
This session explores the Neuroarchitecture of Dignity, examining how built environments shape well being, safety, and belonging in humanitarian contexts. Bridging neuroscience, architecture, and disaster recovery, experts discuss how shelters, housing, and settlements can reduce stress, restore hope, and support dignity, resilience, and healing for displaced communities.
Robyn Landau, co founder of Kinda Studios, explores how neuroaesthetics and neuroscience can deepen human connection through immersive art. Drawing on collaborations with leading cultural and commercial partners, she explains how understanding bodily responses helps create meaningful, lasting experiences of place, people, and wellbeing.
Leigh Sachwitz of flora and faunavisions explains the creative and technical challenges behind the Genius Immersive Experience in Berlin. This episode explores how advanced projection, soundscape design, and interactive technologies combine to create a multisensory journey inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, revealing the scale, precision, and collaboration required to deliver large scale immersive art experiences.
Immersive art is rapidly gaining popularity, inviting audiences to step inside digital artworks. This episode examines how effective immersive installations truly are, questioning whether they deepen aesthetic appreciation, enhance emotional engagement, or simply transform how we experience art in contemporary cultural spaces.
In this episode of Brilliant Ideas, viewers explore the work of Olafur Eliasson, a Danish Icelandic artist known for immersive installations using light, water, and temperature. The film reveals his creative process and philosophy, showing how art can reshape perception, connect audiences to nature, and expand the boundaries of contemporary artistic experience.
In this TEDx talk, visual artist Joe Crossley explores how projection mapping can transform education, science, and sustainability. Working at the intersection of art, technology, and research, he demonstrates how light based media can reimagine learning, accelerate biological understanding, and create innovative solutions to global challenges.