Brains and beauty
By Alissa Wilkinson Posted in Blog on March 25, 2009 0 Comments 1 min read
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From Wired: Beauty Affects Men’s and Women’s Brains Differently.

In men, images they consider to be beautiful appear to activate brain regions responsible for locating objects in absolute terms – x- and y-coordinates on a grid. Images considered beautiful by women do the same, but they also activate regions associated with relative location: above and behind, over and under. The difference could be the result of evolutionary pressures on our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

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