Abstract
For many of us, listening to our favorite songs makes us feel happy, energetic, and inspired. One goal of brain research is to understand the role of the brain as we listen to music. For years, researchers have hypothesized that the brain areas involved in processing the music we hear are involved in musical pleasure—but they had no hard proof. By stimulating people’s brains using strong magnets, along with a brain-imaging technique that could see which areas of the brain were active, scientists have unraveled why we feel so awesome when we listen to our favorite jams. Now there is good evidence to show that our favorite tunes involve connections between specific brain areas, including the brain’s “reward center”—an area that makes us feel good when we do something that we like. These brain circuits provide a solid piece to this complex puzzle of why music makes us feel so good.
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