Why music makes people happy?
dopamin!!!
“People
love music for much the same reason they’re drawn to sex, drugs, gambling, and
delicious food.” According to new research,
when you listen to music, your brain release dopamine, a chemical involved in
both motivation and addiction. The finding also offers a biological explanation
for why people love music so much.
I have read a experiment that made
by Salimpoor, it shows why music has been around for so long. “The intense
pleasure we got from it is actually biologically reinforcing in the brain.”Salimpoor
measure a group of people about shanges in heart rate, pulse, breathing rate
and other measurement. Salimpoor’s group have found evidence that blood flows
to regions in the brain involved in dopamine release.
This is a
really important discover for music field. Dr. Salimpoor use more scientific
way to explain why music can make people so happy when people listen to it. But
in my own opinion, music is like heroin. It can make you exciting when you play
it and you will feel the world never stop. This is the feeling that most of
music players will have. Music makes people happy, also in science field.
work cited
Sohn, Emily. " Why music makes you happy." News. Discovery Communications LLC. Spring 2011. web. 6 Oct 2013
As a music player, I can understand that why music always makes you happy; and it is interesting to learn how this be explained by scientific.
ReplyDeleteBeing a music lover myself, I believe this. It's fascinating what music can do to us. Not only does it scientifically make me happy but I just love going to a concert and bonding with others over certain songs and just making new friends who love the same artists. I wonder if it also does something to make us more friendly. I also wonder if it releases something else in our brain like the dopamine that makes us smarter. When I was in elementary school we always had a reading hour during the day where the teacher would play classical music while we read any book of our choice and we were told that students actually learn more while studying to classical music. Maybe there's a scientific reason for that as well? I would like to learn more about that as well, because I still to this day listen to music by Bach, or Debussy while studying because it became such a learned response. I insisted on taking band in 6th grade to learn the flute and learning that music scientifically makes you happier makes me wish I would've stuck with it.
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