Original Art Stimulates the Brain More Than Reproductions, Study Finds

Five artworks induced stronger positive responses in 20 participants in the Netherlands than museum shop posters of the same works.

Original Art Stimulates the Brain More Than Reproductions, Study Finds
Participant outfitted in electrode cap and eye tracker looks at Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” (c. 1665) at the Mauritshuis (all images courtesy the Mauritshuis)