No matter what kind, music makes the brain release the compound that makes people happy.
According to research conducted at McGill University, Motnreal, there are substances in the brain involved in enjoying the music. This research was done and Valorie Salimpoor Robert Zatorre of McGill University and appear online in the journal Nature Neuroscience, Sunday (9 / 11).
This research deepens previous studies that mention the possibility of the role of dopamine, a substance in brain cells that are useful for communication.
In their study, Zatorre and Salimpoor using brain scans for volunteers to hear the music. The results showed, while helping to make us feel pleasure, dopamine also help the emergence of the effects of euphoria, like, the effects of drugs. That is what explains the music is universal and crosses cultural boundaries.
The researchers conducted experiments with brain scans of eight volunteers who were selected because they claimed was intrigued by a certain part in their favorite music. Characteristics that make the researchers to study how the brain anticipates the music.
The result, according to Zatorre, people who enjoy music but do not feel inspired, also suffered the effects of dopamine.
Participants' brain scans showed brain pumping more dopamine in an area called the striatum, while listening to your favorite part of a musical than the other parts.
Dopamine appears in the striatum area for 15 seconds before the moment which is considered evocative. As part of that sound, dopamine is also present in other parts of the brain. According to Zatorre, it makes sense. "The area associated anticipation associated with the brain involved in making predictions and respond to local circumstances. In addition to reacting to the moment of the peak, the area associated with the limbic system, part of the brain involved in emotion," says Zatorre.
This study uses only instrumental music. Therefore, according to Salimpoor, the use of instrumental music also shows the sound is not so important in generating the effects of dopamine. Further research to find out the fun sound effects to the effects need to be done.
Source: Associated Press
Translated from: Wikimu