Author: Berk Coskun
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Why Cathedrals Make You Believe in God: How Acoustics Relate to Neurological Reward Circuitry
Figure 1. King’s College Choir performance of Gregorio Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus (King’s College Choir, 2014). Sound is all around us, being our second most valuable of our 5 senses (Enoch et al. 2019). But have you ever been in a structure where acoustics are incorporated to the architecture so that sound emotionally overwhelms the individual?…