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A practical overview of the neuroarts landscape, offering a field guide to key concepts and examples shaping the field.
Speakers
Susan Chung, PhD
Dr. Susan Chung, PhD, is director of innovation programs at HKS, where she leads enterprise programs that support research and innovation opportunities. Her focus on human behavior and experience-related research allows her to translate evidence into actionable and outcome-driven design practices. Chung’s scholarly research focuses on creative performance and its relationship to physical and social environmental conditions. She received her doctorate in human behavior and design from Cornell University.
Emmeline Edwards, PhD
Emmeline Edwards is director of the Division of Extramural Research of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH). In that capacity, she is responsible for development of scientific programs or areas of science that fulfill NCCIH’s mission as well as planning, implementation, and policy. NCCIH is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with a mission to define, through rigorous scientific investigation, the usefulness and safety of complementary and integrative health interventions and their roles in improving health and health care.
Edwards earned her PhD in neurochemistry from Fordham University, did postdoctoral research in behavioral pharmacology and neuroscience at the State University of New York, and was a tenured associate professor in the department of pharmacology at the University of Maryland. Her research there focused on the neural mechanisms of complex behaviors and characterization of a genetic model of affective disorders. She also served as chair of the Graduate Studies and Research Committee and a member of the Dean’s Executive Council at the University of Maryland. Currently, Edwards is also chair of Women in World Neuroscience (WWN), an independent mentoring and networking organization with the primary mission of identifying, promoting, and implementing mentoring and networking opportunities for women neuroscientists across the world.
Assal Habibi, PhD
Assal Habibi, PhD, is an associate professor of psychology and director of the Center for Music, Brain, and Society at the University of Southern California. Her interdisciplinary research explores the impact of the arts, with a particular focus on music, health, and human development. She has been a principal investigator on several studies, including projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). An expert in electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods, Habibi’s work uses longitudinal and cross-sectional models to examine the effects of integrating music-based activities into school curricula and elder care, especially in underserved communities. Her research examines both the role of the arts in education and the therapeutic potential of music for individuals across different age groups.
Aston K. McCullough, MPhil, PhD
Aston K. McCullough, MPhil, PhD, is an assistant professor at Northeastern University and a core faculty member of the Center for Cognitive & Brain Health. Before joining Northeastern, McCullough was an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he directed the nation’s first National Endowment for the Arts Research Lab focused on dance and health among adults. He studies human activity in relation to health across the lifespan. He also evaluates methods for analyzing human activity and health-related signals within single- and multi-person movement paradigms using sensors. McCullough received his PhD and MPhil in kinesiology from Columbia University. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the School of Public Health & Health Sciences.
Susan Magsamen, MAS
Susan Magsamen, MAS, is the founder and executive director of the International Arts + Mind Lab (IAM Lab), Center for Applied Neuroaesthetics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a faculty member in the Department of Neurology. Magsamen also serves as co-director of the NeuroArts Blueprint, a joint initiative with Johns Hopkins University and the Aspen Institute that aims to embed the arts and aesthetics into the fabric of medicine, public health, and learning. Magsamen’s work explores how art and aesthetic experiences measurably change the brain, body, and behavior, and how this knowledge can be applied to improve health, wellbeing, and learning across medicine, public health, and education. Magsamen has founded several art education companies including Curiosity Kits and Curiosityville and has authored and co-authored several books including the New York Times bestseller, Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us.
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