Music's Deep Dive: The Emotional Elixir We've Overlooked - Neuroscience News
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Music's Deep Dive: The Emotional Elixir We've Overlooked - Neuroscience News
Researchers speculate that music suppresses pain by, basically, focusing the brain on something else—tunes. In one study, researchers found that listening to music created the same pain-easing results of taking a tablet of extra-strength Tylenol.
from Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek
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- Like the rest of us, psychologists wonder whether emotions feel the same to people from different cultures around the world. Recent research from the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behavior and Development, at Western Sydney University, summarized in Discover Magazine, tried to figure it out. The researchers looked at how communities with varying level... See more
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How do you want to feel?
The human brain is wired to respond to sound. Music adds meaning and dimension that is hard to capture with just text.
Elements such as pitch, melody, harmony, timbre, amplitude, scale, and tones, along with the graduated series of notes or intervals dividing octaves, have an affective, emotional, psychological, cognitive, an
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