id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7crrhcbr5ne5jbkxejx3rsmrhe Cinzia Di Dio The Golden Beauty: Brain Response to Classical and Renaissance Sculptures 2007 27 .pdf application/pdf 7472 589 56 evaluation of the stimuli, the PJ condition was used to observe brain response during a task of overt proportion to objective beauty parameters, we contrasted brain activations during the presentation of the canonical sculptures vs. emotion.6 We also expected signal increase to be particularly strong during the observation condition, where brain judged-as-beautiful images to produce a stronger activation, than the judged-as-ugly images, in areas involved in Fifteen 2-dimentional images of Classical and Renaissance sculptures were chosen following a specific selecCinzia Di Dio Emiliano Macaluso Giacomo Rizzolatti The Golden Beauty The stimuli were presented in three experimental conditions: observation (O), aesthetic judgment (AJ), and proportion judgment (PJ). only the type of image that was presented to the participants: i.e. with canonical (C) or modified (M) proportions. The second analysis ("subjective beauty") categorized each sculpture image according to the behavioural responsible for the insula activation during the observation of canonical sculptures. Brain activations in the contrasts "judged-as-beautiful vs. ./cache/work_7crrhcbr5ne5jbkxejx3rsmrhe.pdf ./txt/work_7crrhcbr5ne5jbkxejx3rsmrhe.txt