Domain-General Representation of Visual Aesthetic Appreciation in the Medial Prefrontal Cortex

Are there “domain-general” neural processes that support aesthetic appreciation regardless of stimulus type, similar to the encoding of abstract expected value of goods? Recent work examining face and place attractiveness reported a common representation of attractiveness in medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC; Pegors et al., in press). We sought to test a) whether moving aesthetic experiences with artwork and architecture, artifacts of human culture...