Brain region affects our attraction to beautiful people In Archive by Fredy OreOctober 11, 2001 An interesting article in New Scientist, on the discovery of a region of the brain called the ventral striatum, which affects our attraction to beautiful people. www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991412 Similar stories Emoticons vary from region to region A new scientist look at Lag between the Eye and Brain Language, music, syntax and the brain Scientists decode brain signals that recognises images Outbreak revisited? or just smart bugs?