Do women and men react differently when we see a beautiful image? Yes, recent studies have shown that when faced with similar aesthetic stimuli, only the right hemisphere of the brain is activated in men, while in women the reaction is bilateral, that is, in both cerebral hemispheres.
Of course, the explanation that the researchers have given to the different reading of the magnetoencephalography, technique used in the experiment, is still not entirely convincing. They ensure that the differences observed between both sexes seem to respond to different ways of approaching the spatial relationship with objects. That is to say, women maintain a relationship more focused on the position of things or their parts in relation to the whole; while men take more into account the topography, that is, the distance that separates them.
This is related to brain activity in different hemispheres —the left hemisphere seems to be more committed to the categorical exploration of spatial relationships and the right to spatial relationships handled by coordinates— an argument already used on other occasions to explain the classification, according to the types of work, male hunter and female gatherer.
Observing women, hunting men
Women have been classified as collectors since time immemorial because they tend to be more aware of objects in their environment, even those that are not directly related to their tasks; while men have orientation strategies based on concepts such as distance and the situation with respect to the cardinal points that are very useful in their role as hunters.
Nothing, surely you are certain, as I am, that different women and men certainly react to beauty, but the explanation available so far leaves us somewhat unsatisfied, so it is best to remain alert for when it arrives and while both enjoy beauty as only women know how to do it.