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Have you ever felt the hairs on your arm standing and get the chills when you’re listening to music? If you do, well, you might have a unique brain!
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A former undergraduate at Harvard conducted a research last year to determine what triggers a goosebump when one is listening to music. 10 out of 20 students experienced the chills when listening to music.
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What the researcher, Matthew Sachs, discovered is that the individuals that had emotional and physical attachment to music have a denser volume of fibers that enables the auditory cortex and the area that process emotions to communicate better!
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“The idea being that more fibers and increased efficiency between two regions means that you have more efficient processing between them.” To put it simply, if you do get chills from listening to music, it means you have stronger and more intense emotions.
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Sachs hopes to learn the neurological cause behind the reactions to tap into psychological disorder treatments. “Depression causes an inability to experience pleasure of everyday things. You could use music with a therapist to explore feelings.”
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