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Emotional response to music

It goes without saying that the humankind and art cannot function without one another. The human kind desires to create, whatever it may be and however tiny or grand it is. The interaction with sound is unavoidable, either to make it or to take pleasure in it. People have found music significant in their lives, whether for enjoyment in listening, the emotional response, performing, or creating. 

Emotions are essential in the human life, people experience emotion daily, it can be while talking with others, alone, doing leisure activities, along others, but they also experience emotion as response to art, music and films. The human being seeks art, regardless of culture, religion or time, and many expect a peak emotional experience while appreciating art.

Music activates many parts of our brain, including the so-called limbic system of the brain, which is involved in motivation, emotion, learning, and memory. In fact, music stimulates almost every part of the brain.

Attached to this post there is a video of a TedTalk about "Your brain on music" By Alan Harvey that explains how music influence our life and well being.

"Music can be thought of as a type of perceptual illusion in which our brain imposes structure and order on a sequence of sounds. Just how this streture lead us to experience emotional reactions is part of the mystery of music" by Daniel Levitin (American-Canadian cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, writer, musician, and record producer.)




References:

Nature research (April 6, 2017), Two types of peak emotional responses to music: The psychophysiology of chills and tears[online] Available from: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46063

Abbey Road Institute (September 27, 2019), Emotions in music, giving you the chills[online] Available from: https://abbeyroadinstitute.nl/blog/emotion-in-music-giving-you-the-chills/