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Psychologist Lauren Stewart on the musical perception, the emotional effects of listening to music and how can people with congenital amusia appreciate music.
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'In a very nice study by Canadian researchers Blood and Zatorre they asked what was going on in the brains of people who were having musical shivers down the spine. What they found was that this experience seems to hijack the brain's general pleasure-related circuitry, areas like the amygdala, the insula and the thalamus which are areas that we know to be very responsive to other biologically adaptive rewards like eating and sexual behaviour as well. '
Lauren Stewart, Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Music-induced Emotions: serious-science.org/music-induced-emotions-9423
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Psychologist Lauren Stewart on the musical perception, the emotional effects of listening to music and how can people with congenital amusia appreciate music.
Read the full text on our website: serious-science.org/effect-of-music-on-the-brain-10358
'In a very nice study by Canadian researchers Blood and Zatorre they asked what was going on in the brains of people who were having musical shivers down the spine. What they found was that this experience seems to hijack the brain's general pleasure-related circuitry, areas like the amygdala, the insula and the thalamus which are areas that we know to be very responsive to other biologically adaptive rewards like eating and sexual behaviour as well. '
Lauren Stewart, Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London
Music-induced Emotions: serious-science.org/music-induced-emotions-9423
Why does music get stuck in our heads? serious-science.org/why-does-music-get-stuck-in-our-heads-9585
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