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How the brain responds to beauty

9 mins | May 11, 2021
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Are we closer to understanding the complex feeling? The human appreciation of beauty has been philosophical consideration for thousands of years. But now, scientists are trying to understand it too. Jason Castro explores the search for the neural basis of the experience in hopes of telling us where it is — or where it isn’t.

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