Perception of Beauty

... ToK - Perception of Facial Beauty Introduction: Studies show that people everywhere all show a common sense for what is attractive, no matter what race, class or age. Face perception is a highly complex visual skill. Visual aesthetic perception or the ability to visually recognize a particular attribute such as form, colour, and movement is processed in the brain. The prefrontal brain expansion is said to be responsible although no current knowledge exists on the role of prefrontal areas in the aesthetic perception. Neurologists have studied the localization of brain areas activated during the visual perception of aesthetic objects. When people were asked to decide whether something was beautiful or not beautiful the participant's brain activity was recorded and the tracings showed a striking difference between attractive and unattractive conditions. Which means facial beauty can perhaps be considered as an attribute perceived by the brain's processing system. It is also said that a

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