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Love of the Music, or its response effects ~

post #1 of 3
1/18/11 at 9:49am
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http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/01/turns-out-that-music-really-is-intoxicating-after-all.ars

 

 

Dose ;)

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post #2 of 3
1/19/11 at 8:11am
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Excerpt:

 

An "outburst of the soul," the composer Frederick Delius called music. The sounds associated with the form produce "a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without," observed Confucius. It is the art "which is most nigh to tears and memory," noted the writer Oscar Wilde.

It turns out that these guys were more on target than we thought. Our experience of the music we love stimulates the pleasure chemical dopamine in our brain, concludes a new study produced by a slew of scholars at McGill University. The researchers followed the brain patterns of test subjects with MRI imaging, and identified dopamine streaming into the striatum region of their forebrains "at peak emotional arousal during music listening."

Not only that, but the scientists noticed that various parts of the striatum responded to the dopamine rush differently. The caudate was more involved during the expectation of some really nice musical excerpt, and the nucleus accumbens took the lead during "the experience of peak emotional responses to music."

In other words, just the anticipation our favorite passage stimulates the production of dopamine. "Our results help to explain why music is of such high value across all human societies," the writers conclude.

 

I have often used the decriptive terms "Peak musical experience" on these boards, and now I know why, musics effects have a biological component .

 

Rock-On ;)

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post #3 of 3
1/19/11 at 8:22am

I don't need Mcgill university brainiacs to tell me that music affects me deeply!wink_face.gif That is why I try not to listen to anything with negative moral content. Music affects you all the way through, for better or worse. 

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