Reuters: Beauty is in the sex of the beholder, study finds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The brains of men and women respond differently to beautiful objects such as paintings, researchers reported on Monday.
They used imaging technology called magnetoencephalography to look at the brain activity of 20 volunteers while looking at pretty paintings and ugly pictures of cities and found clear sex differences when the test subjects saw images they described as beautiful.
Women use more of the whole brain when appreciating a nice piece of art, while men use mostly the right side, Francisco Ayala of the University of California, Irvine and colleagues in Spain found. …
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