The Michelangelo Effect: Art Improves the Performance in a Virtual Reality Task Developed for Upper Limb Neurorehabilitation

The vision of an art masterpiece is associated with brain arousal by neural processes occurring quite spontaneously in the viewer. This aesthetic experience may even elicit a response in the motor areas of the observers. In the neurorehabilitation of patients with stroke, art observation has been us...

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Main Authors: Marco Iosa, Merve Aydin, Carolina Candelise, Natascia Coda, Giovanni Morone, Gabriella Antonucci, Franco Marinozzi, Fabiano Bini, Stefano Paolucci, Gaetano Tieri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.611956/full