What your love for music says about your brain power

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January 10, 2018 9:30 AM

Your brain might be special if music sends chills down your spine, research shows

A former undergraduate at Harvard, Matthew Sachs, has studied individuals who get chills from music to see how this feeling is triggered.

In his research, Sachs examined 20 students, 10 of which have strong attachments to music and the other half didn’t have any such attachments.

He then took brain scans of all of them all and analyzed the result.

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He discovered a difference in the brain structures of the two samples.

Those with strong attachments have a denser volume of fibres that connect their auditory cortex and areas that process emotions, meaning the two can communicate better.

Sachs explained, “The idea being that more fibers and increased efficiency between two regions means that you have more efficient processing between them.”

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This further suggests that if you do get goosebumps from music you are more likely to have stronger and more intense emotions and you could actually use music as a therapy to manage your emotions.

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