Your Brain on Nature: Neuroaesthetics and Biophilia with Dr. Anjan Chatterjee
Biophilic Solutions: Nature Has the Answers
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The Beauty Connection
The reward systems in the brain tend to be common to all of these, right? So it could be that you're eating a great meal or you're anything that you are getting pleasure out of that part of the brain is being activated. Beauty is really tapping into a very basic system, rewards, and ultimately we think that it is about approach behavior. Every mobile organism has got to figure out which is when to approach things, when to avoid things. And so we think beauty is a big motivator for that.
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