Anca Lamse

“Leonardo knew that the best way to look at something analytically is to draw it. Water fascinated him, so he drew”
― Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

“Pennebaker saw that those using expressive writing around trauma had far fewer visits to the campus health center than those who wrote trivial stories.”
― Susan Magsamen, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

“Attention directs our consciousness to focus on some things and not others, and it is a fluid state that moves through varying degrees. “Attention is your ability to selectively focus and sustain focus,”
― Susan Magsamen, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us

“Learning comes in many forms: cognitive, emotional, embodied. There is explicit learning, where you actively seek knowledge, and implicit learning, where you passively take in experiences that change you. Many elements go into making experiences more salient for learning, among them novelty, humor, curiosity, attention level, creativity, motivation, environment, and the unique way your brain develops.”
― Susan Magsamen, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us