How to Make a Difference: Part 2
Sep 28, 2026
Hidden Brain
The Mystery of Beauty
Cognition, Neuroscience and Philosophy of Science podcast with Anjan Chatterjee and Frank Wilczek
Hidden Brain, Hosted by Shankar Vedantam
Monday 49 min
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Anjan Chatterjee discusses how neuroscience can investigate beauty and aesthetic experience, including what neurological changes and responses to faces reveal about perception and judgement. Shankar Vedantam then speaks with physicist Frank Wilczek about the role of beauty in scientific discovery. The episode connects empirical questions about the human response to beauty with the use of aesthetic intuitions in developing physical theories.
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