Men and Women Respond Differently to Beauty
source: http://topnews.us/content/23899-men-and-women-respond-differently-beauty
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"Researchers on Monday reported that brains of men and women respond differently to items of beauty. Men use the right side of the brain to process beauty while women use their whole brains said the researchers in Tuesday's electronic edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
Researcher Camilo J. Cela-Conde of the University of Baleares in Palma de Mallorca, Spain said, "It is well known that there are differences between brain activity in women and men in cognitive tasks. However, why should this kind of difference appear in the case of appreciation of beauty?"
He explained that when women look at a visual object they link it to language unlike men who tend to concentrate on the spatial aspects of the object. He doesn't know however why and how the human capacity to appreciate beauty evolved. "The differences that we have found might relate to the different social roles that, hypothetically, men and women had during human evolution." he said"
Researcher Camilo J. Cela-Conde of the University of Baleares in Palma de Mallorca, Spain said, "It is well known that there are differences between brain activity in women and men in cognitive tasks. However, why should this kind of difference appear in the case of appreciation of beauty?"
He explained that when women look at a visual object they link it to language unlike men who tend to concentrate on the spatial aspects of the object. He doesn't know however why and how the human capacity to appreciate beauty evolved. "The differences that we have found might relate to the different social roles that, hypothetically, men and women had during human evolution." he said"
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lucidstone
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I'm curious, as a female do you find yourself linking beauty to verbal concepts?
I find this idea entirely alien . . .
I for one am completely spatial and my mind is entirely devoid of linguistic thought when I'm really enjoying the view in the mountains.
Heh, I guess there's a reason why Frank Lloyd Wright is my Picaso.
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