For a candlelight dinner, suffused with light and sound in the background are the perfect opportunity to bring out a love? It 'just a matter of atmosphere or is there something else? According to a study at Stony Brook University in New York published in Social Cognitive Affective.
Neuroscience intimacy and darkness play an important role that goes beyond romance and has deep roots in the neurophysiological development of empathy and attraction love: mutual eye contact that occurs between two lovers in these conditions is in fact enhanced pupillary dilation from each other because that increases sexual excitement and little light that lets you see just the face of the other / herself or his table, while everything else remains distant, blurred in the twilight. And the eyes of the beloved / to seem better than ever, as the women knew of the '500 that, to be more attractive, used eye drops of belladonna, a name that speaks volumes about the effect that causes a dilated pupil .
Pupillary dilatation - If we take the same photo of a woman only to the computer and change the diameter of her pupils will become a more attractive if the picture is exactly the same. The pupillary dilation, however, is not simply the external manifestation of an internal process more complex: American researchers have in fact evaluated with fMRI what happens in the brains of two lovers and have found that activate brain areas involved in the mechanisms of compensation (area ventral tegmental area, dorsal striatum), maternal attachment and friendship (globus pallidus), sexual (posterior hypothalamus) as well as the substantia nigra, raphe nucleus, thalamus, insular cortex and anterior cingulate and back and all have common pleasure hormone, dopamine. Guardacaso the same neurotransmitter that dilates the pupils ...
MEN AND WOMEN - A study a few years ago the University of Toronto said that this is especially true for males, while women would be attracted mainly by men with eyes of medium width. Their attention to men, however, changes depending on the ovulatory period in which they are located. Another Norwegian study showed that the University of Tromso in the face of stimuli that have some sexual significance of a woman pupil size increases significantly only in the fertile phase of the cycle and especially in the face image of the beloved, but that does not happens if you use the pill. At the first appointment, therefore, it might be useful to bring a pupillometer to control the interest that we have raised. But beware that it is not a nearsighted person, because his eyes may deceive you, because they are naturally dilated.
