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Johannes Vermeer's Girl With The Pearl Earring is one of the world's most popular paintings - and now scientists believe they know why, by measuring how the brain reacts when the work is viewed.

the scientists also discovered the precuneus, the part of the brain governing consciousness and personal identity, was the most stimulated. "It was predictable that the Girl was special.