Page 13 - ChildArt July-Sept 2017 Your Brain on Art

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The MindShift Virtual World Play your favorite BLAM
Guide to Games Design and animated movie and
and Learning Creation for Teens dance to the move with
Jordan Shapiro Charles Ryan the characters. How
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Science of the arts

fMRI brain scans show Virtual reality therapy When your brain receives Playing an animated video Some brain-machine
reductions in pain-related has been shown to evoke an audio-visual stimulus, the game can improve the interfaces (BMI) can help
brain activity with patients changes in the limbic and sensory information travels ability to take on more tasks increase cortical and
who use virtual reality. visceral brain circuitry. to the thalamus (the relay by increasing attention and spinal cord plasticity for
station) that forwards the focus in the game. disabled patients.
information for processing.