Thesis post #37: Beauty Affects Men's and Women's Brains Differently

"Beauty is famously in the eye of the beholder; but it's also in the beholder's brain, and may work differently in the brains of men and women.

In men, images they consider to be beautiful appear to activate brain regions responsible for locating objects in absolute terms — x- and y-coordinates on a grid. Images considered beautiful by women do the same, but they also activate regions associated with relative location: above and behind, over and under. The difference could be the result of evolutionary pressures on our hunter-gatherer ancestors."...

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Really love these colour theory diagrams

And there are tons more here as well as tons of in depth but easy to understand explanations about the history of colour theory. Very interesting!



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Info about lightness perception that nerds like me are fascinated by

By Edward H. Adelson from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences @ MIT

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