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| Title |
The experience of mathematical beauty and its neural correlates
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00068 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Semir Zeki, John Paul Romaya, Dionigi M. T. Benincasa, Michael F. Atiyah |
| Abstract |
Many have written of the experience of mathematical beauty as being comparable to that derived from the greatest art. This makes it interesting to learn whether the experience of beauty derived from such a highly intellectual and abstract source as mathematics correlates with activity in the same part of the emotional brain as that derived from more sensory, perceptually based, sources. To determine this, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to image the activity in the brains of 15 mathematicians when they viewed mathematical formulae which they had individually rated as beautiful, indifferent or ugly. Results showed that the experience of mathematical beauty correlates parametrically with activity in the same part of the emotional brain, namely field A1 of the medial orbito-frontal cortex (mOFC), as the experience of beauty derived from other sources. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 594 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 66 | 11% |
| Japan | 58 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 35 | 6% |
| Canada | 15 | 3% |
| Italy | 14 | 2% |
| Spain | 12 | 2% |
| Brazil | 12 | 2% |
| Australia | 8 | 1% |
| France | 6 | 1% |
| Other | 90 | 15% |
| Unknown | 278 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 468 | 79% |
| Scientists | 114 | 19% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 6 | 1% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 347 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 3% |
| Italy | 4 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 1% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| Germany | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Russia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 1% |
| Unknown | 314 | 90% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 69 | 20% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 61 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 43 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 28 | 8% |
| Professor | 26 | 7% |
| Other | 72 | 21% |
| Unknown | 48 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 70 | 20% |
| Neuroscience | 43 | 12% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 31 | 9% |
| Mathematics | 19 | 5% |
| Arts and Humanities | 17 | 5% |
| Other | 112 | 32% |
| Unknown | 55 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 993. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2024.
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#16,647
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Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#13
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#96
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#1
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