“The experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates”

“we were not surprised to find, because of similarities in the experience of beauty provoked by the different sources alluded to above, that the experience of mathematical beauty correlates with activity in the same brain area(s), principally field A1 of mOFC, that are active during the experience of visual, musical, and moral beauty.”
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00068/full

This paper is so well written, and the discussion is fantastic: “It leads to the capital question of whether beauty, even in so abstract an area as mathematics, is a pointer to what is true in nature, both within our nature and in the world in which we have evolved…”

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