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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Beauty Perceived Differently by Men and Women

According to an article in Ars Technica, a collaborative ressearch project has revealed that men and women use different sides of the brain to perceive beauty. By measuring areas of brain activity, men apparently focus on the global picture while women in addition look at specific details. This is probably related to the different roles of men and women in hunter gatherer societies, in which women being the primary gatherers would have to pay more attention to fruits and berries.

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