Buildings inspire many emotions like awe, serenity or even dread. CrowdScience listener Siobhan was struck by this as she passed a huge apartment block with tiny windows; it reminded her of a prison. So she asked us to investigate the feelings that buildings can trigger.

Architects have long considered how buildings might make occupants or passersby feel: asking whether certain features elicit feelings of wonder or joy... or sadness and fear. And now a young field of neuroscience is starting to interrogate these very questions, too.

How much of the way we feel about a building is to do with its intrinsic design, and how much is due to our individual brain chemistry and life experiences? Presenter Caroline Steel explores such questions with leading experts - and gets electrodes stuck to her head in an attempt to measure her emotional response to built environments. Show less