The power that music has is incredible, and people who get goosebumps when listening to music are really special - they are supposed to have a different brain. And why is that?
The connection between music and feelings was the subject the research of scientists. They found that individuals who get goosebumps when listening to music have a different brain structure compared to those who do not they feel nothing to the music.
Matthew E. Sachs he analyzed how 20 students experience music. While researching, they participants responded to the music in different ways, 10 of them admitted that they had the following feelings ‒ in those individuals who are music touched in a special way, is hers they reflected the impact by getting goosebumps or a lump in their throat. Such feelings that arise when listening to music, they are rare and unique. Some participants are even every time they are listened to music, remembered some event from the past.
Sachs found that those individuals who managed to establish an emotional connection with music, have a different brain structure, namely such persons they have a larger volume of fibers, which means that they feel (the music) more intensely as a result.
Despite the fact that it is about a small survey, Sachs says that in will do research in the future in which he will observe brain activity while listening to music that elicits certain responses. In this way, he will study what challenges these reactions and can he find a way, how to heal psychological diseases, such as depression, in which a person does not he experiences pleasures in everyday things.
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