Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study

Abstract What are the neural mechanisms underlying beauty based on objective parameters and beauty based on subjective social construction? This study scanned participants with fMRI while they performed aesthetic judgments on concrete pictographs and abstract oracle bone scripts. Behavioral results...

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Autores principales:	Wei Zhang, Xianyou He, Siyan Lai, Juan Wan, Shuxian Lai, Xueru Zhao, Darong Li
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2017
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6b2da3219fb4478a94d5b83ba64b93f42021-12-02T16:06:33ZNeural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study10.1038/s41598-017-07608-82045-2322https://doaj.org/article/6b2da3219fb4478a94d5b83ba64b93f42017-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07608-8https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract What are the neural mechanisms underlying beauty based on objective parameters and beauty based on subjective social construction? This study scanned participants with fMRI while they performed aesthetic judgments on concrete pictographs and abstract oracle bone scripts. Behavioral results showed both pictographs and oracle bone scripts were judged to be more beautiful when they referred to beautiful objects and positive social meanings, respectively. Imaging results revealed regions associated with perceptual, cognitive, emotional and reward processing were commonly activated both in beautiful judgments of pictographs and oracle bone scripts. Moreover, stronger activations of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and motor-related areas were found in beautiful judgments of pictographs, whereas beautiful judgments of oracle bone scripts were associated with putamen activity, implying stronger aesthetic experience and embodied approaching for beauty were elicited by the pictographs. In contrast, only visual processing areas were activated in the judgments of ugly pictographs and negative oracle bone scripts. Results provide evidence that the sense of beauty is triggered by two processes: one based on the objective parameters of stimuli (embodied natural beauty) and the other based on the subjective social construction (social endowed beauty).Wei ZhangXianyou HeSiyan LaiJuan WanShuxian LaiXueru ZhaoDarong LiNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Wei Zhang Xianyou He Siyan Lai Juan Wan Shuxian Lai Xueru Zhao Darong Li Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study
description	Abstract What are the neural mechanisms underlying beauty based on objective parameters and beauty based on subjective social construction? This study scanned participants with fMRI while they performed aesthetic judgments on concrete pictographs and abstract oracle bone scripts. Behavioral results showed both pictographs and oracle bone scripts were judged to be more beautiful when they referred to beautiful objects and positive social meanings, respectively. Imaging results revealed regions associated with perceptual, cognitive, emotional and reward processing were commonly activated both in beautiful judgments of pictographs and oracle bone scripts. Moreover, stronger activations of orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and motor-related areas were found in beautiful judgments of pictographs, whereas beautiful judgments of oracle bone scripts were associated with putamen activity, implying stronger aesthetic experience and embodied approaching for beauty were elicited by the pictographs. In contrast, only visual processing areas were activated in the judgments of ugly pictographs and negative oracle bone scripts. Results provide evidence that the sense of beauty is triggered by two processes: one based on the objective parameters of stimuli (embodied natural beauty) and the other based on the subjective social construction (social endowed beauty).
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title	Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study
title_short	Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study
title_full	Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study
title_fullStr	Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study
title_full_unstemmed	Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study
title_sort	neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: an fmri study
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publishDate	2017
url	https://doaj.org/article/6b2da3219fb4478a94d5b83ba64b93f4
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Neural substrates of embodied natural beauty and social endowed beauty: An fMRI study

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