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Podcast with Susan Magsamen, author of Your Aesthetic Brain: A Growing Case for the Arts

Published: July 31, 2019

Susan Magsamen, founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, a pioneering neuroaesthetics initiative from the Brain Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, discusses her Cerebrum article and research aimed at the intersection of brain sciences and the arts—and how our unique response to aesthetic experiences can amplify human potential. Podcast transcript

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