As DJ Lee Haslam told us, music is the drug.īut why? It’s easy enough to understand why sex and food are rewarded with a dopamine rush: this makes us want more, and so contributes to our survival and propagation. Those rewards come from a gush of a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Using magnetic resonance imaging they showed that people listening to pleasurable music had activated brain regions called the limbic and paralimbic areas, which are connected to euphoric reward responses, like those we experience from sex, good food and addictive drugs. Why does it make us feel good? In 2001, neuroscientists Anne Blood and Robert Zatorre at McGill University in Montreal provided an answer. We like music because it makes us feel good. We have answers on some levels, but not all. Why do we like music? Like most good questions, this one works on many levels.
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