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. 2017 Aug 2:8:1281.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01281. eCollection 2017.

Commentary: Beauty Requires Thought

Severi Luoto  1   2
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Commentary: Beauty Requires Thought

Severi Luoto. Front Psychol. .
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Keywords: aesthetics; beauty; cognition; consciousness; physical attractiveness; reward; unconscious processing; visual processing.

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Three primary constituents of beauty response. Any two can be removed without completely incapacitating a person's ability to appreciate beauty (cf. Bromberger et al., ; Nadal, 2013).
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    Brielmann AA, Pelli DG. Brielmann AA, et al. Curr Biol. 2017 May 22;27(10):1506-1513.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.04.018. Epub 2017 May 11. Curr Biol. 2017. PMID: 28502660 Free PMC article.

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