Less is more: Aesthetic liking is inversely related to metabolic expense by the visual system.

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033, P < 0.001), OPA (Spearman rho = −0.046, P < 0.001), and PPA (Spearman rho = −0.102, P < 0.001) displayed highly significant negative correlations between metabolic costs and aesthetic pleasure (no significant correlation was found in LOC, Spearman rho = 0.000, P = 0.999).

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