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Why Music Makes Our Brain Sing:
Posted on 6/8/13 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 6/8/13 at 1:14 pm
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When pleasurable music is heard, dopamine is released in the striatum — an ancient part of the brain found in other vertebrates as well — which is known to respond to naturally rewarding stimuli like food and sex and which is artificially targeted by drugs like cocaine and amphetamine.
But what may be most interesting here is when this neurotransmitter is released: not only when the music rises to a peak emotional moment, but also several seconds before, during what we might call the anticipation phase.
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Posted on 6/8/13 at 2:51 pm to monsterballads
Anticipation phase is incredible. Lends a lot of information on the human mind, IMO.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 3:04 pm to rbWarEagle
Go on... You have me interested now.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 3:27 pm to 225bred
Our brains, in certain networks, are involved in making predictions based on stored knowledge of a certain system. Music, in this case. Songs and sounds you've heard before are encoded into your brain so when you hear a new song, your brain makes certain predictions of the next note in the song, for example. What's also interesting is that the same anticipation has been shown to be very accurate in predicting a range of stimuli in psychology studies.
Let me see if I can find it in my old notes.
Let me see if I can find it in my old notes.
Posted on 6/8/13 at 9:40 pm to monsterballads
That was a really cool read. Thanks for sharing
Posted on 6/9/13 at 6:22 pm to monsterballads
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And we found that neural activity within the striatum — the reward-related structure — was directly proportional to the amount of money people were willing to spend.
I guess this explains, on a neurophysiological level, why so much popular music is formulaic.
Posted on 6/9/13 at 6:25 pm to inadaze
Repetitive beat with a catchy melody is all you need. 
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