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===Physiological responses=== Humans appear to be especially well-adapted to processing fractal patterns with [[fractal dimension]] between 1.3 and 1.5.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Fractal Fluency: An Intimate Relationship Between the Brain and Processing of Fractal Stimuli |last=Taylor |first=Richard P. |pages=485β496 |title=The Fractal Geometry of the Brain |editor-last=Di Ieva |editor-first=Antonio |date=2016 |publisher=Springer |series=Springer Series in Computational Neuroscience |isbn=978-1-4939-3995-4}}</ref> When humans view fractal patterns with fractal dimension between 1.3 and 1.5, this tends to reduce physiological stress.<ref name="Taylor 2006">{{cite journal | last=Taylor | first=Richard P. | title=Reduction of Physiological Stress Using Fractal Art and Architecture | journal=Leonardo | volume=39 | issue=3 | year=2006 | pages=245β251 | doi=10.1162/leon.2006.39.3.245| s2cid=8495221 | url=https://zenodo.org/record/894740 }}</ref><ref>For further discussion of this effect, see {{cite journal | last1=Taylor | first1=Richard P. | last2=Spehar | first2=Branka | last3=Donkelaar | first3=Paul Van | last4=Hagerhall | first4=Caroline M. | title=Perceptual and Physiological Responses to Jackson Pollock's Fractals | journal=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience | volume=5 | pages=60 | year=2011 | doi=10.3389/fnhum.2011.00060| pmid=21734876 | pmc=3124832 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
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