Gallery in London visitors able to see how their brains respond to art

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Gallery in London visitors able to see how their brains respond to art

Art can inspire a rich variety of thoughts and emotions but those feelings have always been hard to pin-down. However, some lucky visitors at a gallery in London trialled a new technology which examines their brainwave activity as they react to works by Van Gough and Monet and then visualises what feelings the art induced back to them in real-time. Harry Kitson went to take a look.

December 1, 2023