Tag: human biology
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Why Cathedrals Make You Believe in God: How Acoustics Relate to Neurological Reward Circuitry
Sound surrounds us constantly, and hearing is regarded as one of our most valuable senses (Enoch et al. 2019). But have you ever been in a building where sound seemed to wash over you? Cathedrals are famous for this effect: their high ceilings and stone surfaces cause sound to reflect and linger, causing long reverberations…
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Mini Brains: Coming Soon
In 2011, a biologist named Madeline Lancaster was working on growing 2D neural rosettes. Neural rosettes are columnar cells that form a radial structure and express proteins that are also expressed in neuroepithelial cells of a neural tube (Wilson & Stice, 2006). In an interesting turn of events, the cells instead started growing into a…