Toward a brain-based theory of beauty

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Ishizu, Tomohiro ^a   Zeki, Semir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN BASED THEORY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PHILOSOPHY; RATING SCALE; THEORY; UGLY; VISUAL STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BEAUTY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL;

EID: 79959992499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021852     Document Type: Article

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