They say that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", yet specific regions in the brain light up and become active when we subjectively see something as "beautiful."
Does this suggest that there's a literal "beauty spot" in the brain, or is something else at play here?
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There's a Literal Beauty Spot In Your Brain
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Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:22 The Beauty Spots
2:22 Expertise, Familiarity, and Emotion
3:12 Why This Is So Fascinating
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References
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retri...
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/f...
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