Brain Study: Men & Women Respond Differently To Beauty

“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 … also activate regions associated with relative location: above and behind, over and under.”