Discovery Channel News - Men, Women Admire Beauty Differently in Brain
In a very small study using only 10 men and 10 women, brain activity between the two sexes differed when viewing artworks. Subjects were given a variety of art to consider and judged them either 'beautiful' or 'not-beautiful'. Scientists found that objects judged as beautiful elicited more brain activity than those that weren't, but more interestingly that men had brain activity focused on the right side of their brains, while women had activity in both sides. (The most activity was in the parietal lobe, which is used for visual processing and spatial orientation.) The theory is that women link their spatial perception to language, while men do not.
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