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"We report evidence on the pattern of s*x differences in brain volume, surface area, cortical thickness, white matter microstructure, and functional connectivity between adult males and females in the range between middle- and older-age."

S*x Differences in the Adult Human Brain: Evidence from 5216 UK Biobank Participants | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic Abstract. S*x differences in the human brain are of interest for many reasons: for example, there are s*x differences in the observed prevalence of psychiatric

There's No Such Thing as Being Right or Left-Brained, And 9 Other Brain Myths We've All Heard However long you've been alive, chances are you've heard a completely incorrect "fact" about the brain. The human brain is notoriously complicated, and despite many advances in modern science, much of the organ remains a mystery.

How to target the 'aesthetic brain'? Why is one thing more beautiful than the other?

This article proposes a model that "accounts for aesthetic episodes elicited by (post-)modern art and by non-beautiful art. The model is dynamic and can explain changes in the reception of artworks over time."

Combining universal beauty and cultural context in a unifying model of visual aesthetic experience In this work, I propose a model of visual aesthetic experience that combines formalist and contextual aspects of aesthetics. The model distinguishes between two modes of processing. First, perceptual processing is based on the intrinsic form of an artwork, which may or may not be beautiful. If it is...

"Thinking fast and slow", "System 1 and system 2"...
Simplified categorisations are appealing.
The processes in the brain are unified. For example, uncontrollable processes (System 1) can simultaneously be intentional or inefficient (System 2).
Thus, many psychologists argue against the dual-process view. Below are a few examples:

* "...the very same rules can underlie both intuitive and deliberate judgments."http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:2098989/component/escidoc:2098988/AWK_Intuitive_2011.pdf

* ".. two-system models currently provide little scientific advance, and we encourage researchers to adopt more rigorous conceptual definitions and employ more stringent criteria for testing the empirical evidence in support for two-system theories"https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/fe34/4cf098ad601f5856e45f795b54c314cbc748.pdf

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