Painters have a different brain structure than ordinary people

(New study) - A new study shows that artists often have brains that are more structurally different from those who don't know how to draw.

Brain scanning of participants in the study discovered that artists with more neuronal growth in regions are involved in the art of neurotransmitter movement as well as the ability to visualize the brain in the brain. the set.

Accordingly, in the NeuroImage magazine, this study has shown that the talent of an artist can be innate.

However, training and nurturing in the painting environment also plays a very important role to their abilities, the authors added. Because in many aspects of science, the interplay of congenital and nourishing is still unknown.

The research leader, author Rebecca Chamberlain from KU Leuven, said she was excited to find out how artists looked at life in such a different way. She explains: 'People who are better at drawing actually have a more developed structure in areas of the brain that control the true art movement and the area we call procedural memory '.

In this study, scientists looked at the brains of 21 painters and compared with 23 brains of people who were not good at drawing other by brain scanning called 'linguistic morphology'.

Detailed scan results have found that artists have a larger amount of gray matter in the apical region of the brain.

'This brain region can be responsible for many functional areas, but it is also capable of involving creative activities, such as visualizing visual imagery, adjusting images as well as binding. Mix and recreate them '.

Participants also completed the task of painting, from which the team could look at the relationship between the expression in this test and the gray matter and white matter in the brain.

The brain is changed

People who are better able to paint have higher levels of gray matter and white matter in the cerebellum as well as in the sub-neuronal region. Both of these areas are related to the ability to manipulate the art of neuromuscular movement and manifest in everyday activities.

Gray matter is made up of nerve cells, while white matter is responsible for exchanging and communicating between gray matter areas.

However, there are no clear conclusions about the increase of neurons that are meaningful to painting.

Another author of the study, Chris McManus from the University of London, said that it is difficult to tell which side of talent is innate or learnable.

'We need to do some more research with teenagers and see how they can develop their painting skills as adults. However, I think, this study has also helped me find a way to start the way of future research. '