The scientific article Empathy, Einfühlung, and aesthetic experience: the effect of emotion contagion on appreciation of representational and abstract art using fEMG and SCR, by researchers Gernot Gerger, Matthew Pelowski, and Helmut Leder (the latter being a leading expert in neuroaesthetics)...

Italo Calvino wrote in Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (1983): «The moment my attention shifts from the regular order of written lines to follow the shifting complexity that no sentence can contain or exhaust, I feel close to understanding that on the other side of words lies something trying to...

Correlazioni.eu wishes you a happy summer, with the words of Albert Einstein, quoted by physicist G. Caglioti in the article Einstein and Art (in "Scienza in Rete," May 21, 2020), words on the human attitude that underpins our relationship with the world in both art and science:

«Arco non è altro che una fortezza causata da due debolezze, imperò che l'arco negli edifizi è composto di due parti di circulo, i quali quarti circoli ciascuno debolissimo per sé desidera cadere, e opponendosi alla ruina dell'altro le due debolezze si convertono in unica fortezza» (Leonardo da...

In the article The Beauty of Aging. When Art Challenges Time, published in the April-June 2026 issue of "Anemos - Neuroscience", Chiara Codeluppi, psychologist, geropsychologist, and systemic psychotherapist, describes how the SOC model — Selection, Optimization, Compensation — represents a...

Anthropologist Tim Ingold's studies offer an interesting contribution to the interdisciplinary investigation and reflection on the relationship between the biological, material, and cultural worlds (see, for example, The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling, and Skill). On...

On May 29, Edgar Morin, a French philosopher and sociologist, passed away. He proposed the study of complexity based on new relationships between knowledge as a path to a possible contemporary humanism, a new organization of studies and education, and a renewed orientation of culture. In the...

Recognizing the therapeutic function of art, discussed in "Art Prescribed by the Doctor: Why Beauty Helps to Heal," an article by S. Iannaccone in "la Repubblica" on April 30, 2026, can only be a positive step forward. And how can art benefit health? To what aspects of humanity does it naturally...

We present the episode of the Rai 3 television program Quante Storie from March 25, 2026, featuring neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese and writer Mario Desiati. From the RaiPlay website:
«Advances in neuroscience and the rapid pace of technological innovation that has taken place in recent years...