Operations in the intermediate stage segregate some elements and group others, forming coherent representations. In late visual process- ing stages certain regions of the object are selected for further scrutiny, memories are activated, objects are recognized and associated with meanings. In the case of visual stimuli found to be aesthetically pleasing, these operations elicit emo- tional processes, which feedback into the system via attentional mechanisms. As in Leder and colleagues’ (2004) model, there is a second output, here represented by the decision-making processes required by most experimental designs. Chatter- jee (2003) suggested that processing aesthetic stimuli involves similar visual brain regions as processing any other kind of visual stimuli
