Binocularly suppressed stimuli induce brain activities related to aesthetic emotions.
Frontiers in Neuroscience 2024 Hideyuki Hoshi, Akira Ishii, Yoshihito Shigihara et al.
Aesthetic emotions are a class of emotions aroused by evaluating aesthetically appealing objects or events. While evolutionary aesthetics suggests the adaptive roles of these emotions, empirical assessments are lacking. Previous neuroscientific studies have demonstrated that visual stimuli carrying evolutionarily important information induce neural responses even when presented non-consciously....