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psychological aesthetics

a branch of psychology that studies the response to beauty and the underlying factors that contribute to its experience, particularly during exposure to works of art, such as paintings, music, sculpture, and photographs.

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Hering–Breuer reflex

Hering–Breuer reflex

a nervous mechanism involved in normal breathing, with stimuli from sensory endings in lung tissue limiting inspiration and expiration. [Ewald Hering; Josef Breuer]