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[Previous entry: "Unsung vending machines."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Google Hacks"] 01/05/2005 Entry: "Sciam on how music affects the brain." Sciam on how music affects the brain. More than 30,000 years ago early humans were already playing bone flutes, percussive instruments and jaw harps--and all known societies throughout the world have had music. Indeed, our appreciation appears to be innate. Infants as young as two months will turn toward consonant, or pleasant, sounds and away from dissonant ones. And when a symphony's denouement gives delicious chills, the same kinds of pleasure centers of the brain light up as they do when eating chocolate, having sex or taking cocaine.Hmm, coincidence that addictive/compulsive personalities tend to be big on music?
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