Art Divides the Sexes

Both men and women may admire art together but they don’t do it in the same way. A new study out of Spain’s University of Baleares suggests men process beauty on the right side of their brains, while women use their whole brain to do the job. Men concentrate on the spatial aspects of the object- how it takes up space and relates to the world around it. But women go a step further and tie the visual object to language, applying verbal labels what they experience. Details are in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.