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Brain Activity and the Experience of Beauty by Michelle Duarte is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The study investigates whether the experience of beauty from different sources activates the same brain areas, using fMRI to scan 21 subjects while they rated visual and musical stimuli. Results showed that the medial orbito-frontal cortex (mOFC) was consistently active during experiences of beauty from both modalities, suggesting a common neural mechanism for beauty perception. The findings support the formulation of a brain-based theory of beauty, indicating that beauty is a unified experience across diff
- Author
- Michelle Duarte
- Language
- EN