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The scientific mystery of why humans love music


This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

Levitin explores the connection between music--its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, why we enjoy it--and the human brain. Taking on prominent ...

Music as a coevolved system for social bonding | Cambridge Core

Why do humans make music? Theories of the evolution of musicality have focused mainly on the value of music for specific adaptive contexts ...

The Science of Attraction: Why Do We Fall for Certain People?

We're attracted to people who like the same things as us—politics, music, books. ... love. One small, shared interest sparks a conversation ...

Oxytocin and love: Myths, metaphors and mysteries - ScienceDirect

This capacity in modern humans is required for relationships to be experienced and expressed [135]. Furthermore, accurate appraisal of future threats [136], the ...

The Mystery of Music | Philosophy Talk

Music is just sound. We perceive sound with the sense of hearing. if you and I hear the same musical sounds, we perceive the same musical reality. But mere ...

Why do music and art move us? - Science | HowStuffWorks

Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi suggests that music creates emotion in the listener because we associate the sound with human movement.

Love, Actually: The science behind lust, attraction, and companionship

Testosterone and estrogen drive lust; dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin create attraction; and oxytocin and vasopressin mediate attachment ...

Why can't the world's greatest minds solve the mystery of ...

... love at first sight, or regret – and that's only ... mystery of conscious awareness goes deeper than a purely material science can explain.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Wikipedia

Written by. show. Various head writers · Starring. show · Voices of. show · Theme music composer. Charlie Erickson (music) · Opening theme, "Love Theme from Mystery ...

Does music make you move? Here's why our brain loves to groove.

Psychological and neuroscience research suggests that the phenomenon of groove reveals something fundamental about how our brains work: We enjoy ...

The Science of Wonder - Mindful.org

... music, spirituality, big ideas, and encountering the beginning and ... humans, when responding to peril together. Awe is a basic state ...

Music & How It Impacts Your Brain, Emotions - Psych Central

A tool for arousing emotions and feelings, music is far more powerful than language. An increased interest in how the brain processes musical emotion can be ...

Why human brains were bigger 3,000 years ago - BBC

Size is just one piece of the puzzle. What's cleverer, anyway, to think – or to survive? Humans love to cogitate but, as Goswami says, our ...

Uniting the mysterious worlds of quantum physics and music - Aeon

Einstein, Galileo and Kepler all showed that finding inspiration through the beauty of music can lead to fruitful discoveries. Where we run into ...

Why do We Love Music? - YouTube

What is it about simple sound waves that make humans go so crazy? Our love for music is one of the great mysteries of life.

Music, Emotion, and Well-Being | Psychology Today

Music has the ability to evoke powerful emotional responses such as chills and thrills in listeners. Positive emotions dominate musical experiences.

What Type of Music Do Pets Like? - Live Science

Against the conventional wisdom that music is a uniquely human phenomenon, recent and ongoing research shows that animals actually do share our ...

Logic vs. Emotion in Decision-Making - Slashdot

Love is nothing but an act with purpose correlating with survival ... a scientist, it just gets pounded out of some of us. (I took a ...

Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between ...

[Music] has the ability to lead us, if only temporarily, into a sacred realm. Music plays into the yearning many of us instinctively have — you ...

100th Episode! A Scientific Songtacular - NPR

From pop to hip-hop and from disco to techno, humans love music! Monkeys on the other hand...well, that's a completely different question!