Friday, January 28, 2011

Turns out that music really is intoxicating, after all

Turns out that music really is intoxicating, after all: "To learn more about the music/brain/stimulation process, the McGill researchers followed subjects through the 'chills' or 'musical frisson' response moment. You may have thought that chills were just a subjective concept, but that isn't the case. They involve a 'clear and discrete pattern of autonomic nervous system (ANS) arousal,' the experimenters say, which facilitate 'objective verification through psychophysiological measurements.'"