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To make sense of difficult science, Michael Kofi Esson often turns to art.
When he’s struggling to understand the immune system or a rare disease, music, and poetry serve as an anchor.
“It helps calm me down and actively choose what to focus on,” says Esson, a second-year student at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Esson, who was born in Ghana, also thinks his brain is better at absorbing all that science because of the years he spent playing the trumpet and studying Afrobeat musicians like Fela Kuti.
“There has to be some kind of greater connectivity that [art] imparts on the brain,” Esson says.
That idea — that art has a measurable effect on the brain and its structure — has support from a growing number of scientific studies.
“Creativity is making new connections, new synapses,” says Ivy Ross, who is vice president of hardware design at Google and co-author of the New York Times bestseller Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.
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A growing body of research is probing art’s effects on the brain. DrAfter123/Getty Images
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