Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross (Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us) are researchers and authors. Susan and Ivy join the Armchair Expert to discuss how important it is to participate in the arts, why room designs can affect moods, and how technology can be used to improve quality of life. Susan and Ivy explain how humans are feeling beings that have learned to think, that writing down a secret can reduce your stress levels, and what being in a completely silent room would be like. Susan, Ivy, and Dax discuss the importance of play, humans perpetual state of aesthetic fatigue, and why people feel most comfortable in curved spaces. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard I'm joined by Monica Mouse.
0:06.3	Hi. You're in a hurry. Well I'm going to the gynecologist I'm not going to get makeup.
0:11.3	Yeah and it's we're running out of time. Yeah and you don't want to keep this man or female
0:16.8	waiting. It's a female. Oh, okay. That's neither here nor there.
0:22.7	Today we have Susan Maximman and Ivy Ross,
0:26.1	neither of which.
0:27.1	Or my gynecologist.
0:28.6	Susan is the director of the International Arts
0:31.1	and Mind Lab at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Ivy Ross
0:36.3	is the Vice President of Hardware Design at Google.
0:39.4	They make a very fun pair.
0:41.8	And they've got a great book called your brain on art how the arts
0:45.7	transform us I have found myself reporting info they gave to us same throughout the
0:51.0	real world and has made us both want to take up pottery.
0:56.0	Yes, it has, which we'll soon learn is one of the best uses of your left and right brain.
1:02.0	Ding, ding, ding, please enjoy Susan and Ivy.
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1:25.0	He's an I'm sure expert.
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