Neural correlates of beauty

Neural correlates of beauty: “What exactly is beauty?”, is an old and unanswered question. It is one of those fringe qualia of consciousness – not a perception but a feeling, like familiarity or certainty, which is attached to a perception. But the criteria for this feeling has never been settled. A recent paper by Ishizu and Zeti (citation below) [...]...

Ishizu, T., & Zeki, S. (2011) Toward A Brain-Based Theory of Beauty. PLoS ONE, 6(7). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021852  Toward A Brain-Based Theory of Beauty

There is one overlap between visual and auditory beauty and no overlap between visual and auditory ugliness! ☯
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