Beauty in the brain: this is how we react to a landscape

We have known for a long time that being in nature is good for health, and now we are beginning to understand what really happens in our brains when we are faced with natural beauty. A research carried out at the Max Planck Institut in Frankfurt, recently published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, explains the transition from the simple vision of a pleasant image to the perception of its aesthetic impact.