Neuroesthetics - Beauty in the Brain


	Neuroesthetics - Beauty in the Brain

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11-19-2007 1:51 PM

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A <A href="http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a781650734~db=all~jumptype=rss">new paper in Network</A> indicates that artists consistently create works which contain the same statistical properties as natural scenes, even when the objects being depicted do not themselves contain such statistics when photographed.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2007/11/beauty_in_the_brain_fractal_sc.php"><P>Redies, Hanisch, Blickhan and Denzler review previous work demonstrating that the "spatial frequencies" of natural scenes (essentially, their spatial complexity) follow a 1/f power spectrum, where increased spatial complexity is increasingly restricted to smaller portions of the scene.  This property is sometimes referred to as "scale invariance" and is reflected in a variety of natural data, including <A href="http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/1fnoise/1fnoise_cog.html">human reaction time data</A>, <A href="http://www.nslij-genetics.org/wli/1fnoise/1fnoise_neuro.html">spontaneous fluctuations in brain activity</A>, and perhaps in the connectivity of biological networks - <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn5012">neural</A> and <A href="http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/11/its-a-small-wor.html">social</A> alike.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FDACEEAD-F353-4527-BD8F-48835C200940/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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