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Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)

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Re: Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)

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Post by firethief »

hudon wrote: post #5
1_player wrote: post #3

It's fascinating that music elicits strong effects on some people, and none whatsoever to others. When I hear someone say "I don't much care about music" it's so hard to understand, as personally I feel it's a direct plug to emotions like none other. I regularly experience frissons when listening to an interesting piece - I've always thought everybody did! - and it can change my mood dramatically and instantly. I alw…

> has no survival reason? This is going to sound crazy but maybe it does have a survival reason. In societies where music is enjoyed (all major societies today), music has the capacity to not only gather people but also have them experience a shared emotion or thought. Not only that, but music has the capacity to carry a story through time, from generation to generation, and thus the capacity to carry the morals of t…

That sounds at most as crazy as female peacocks appreciating beautiful colors

Re: Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)

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Post by benbreen »

hudon wrote: post #5
1_player wrote: post #3

It's fascinating that music elicits strong effects on some people, and none whatsoever to others. When I hear someone say "I don't much care about music" it's so hard to understand, as personally I feel it's a direct plug to emotions like none other. I regularly experience frissons when listening to an interesting piece - I've always thought everybody did! - and it can change my mood dramatically and instantly. I alw…

> has no survival reason? This is going to sound crazy but maybe it does have a survival reason. In societies where music is enjoyed (all major societies today), music has the capacity to not only gather people but also have them experience a shared emotion or thought. Not only that, but music has the capacity to carry a story through time, from generation to generation, and thus the capacity to carry the morals of t…

The anthropologist Robin Dunbar (of Dunbar's number fame) has written about this:

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9...

From the abstract: "This chapter suggests that the original function of music is most likely associated with social bonding once group sizes became too large to be adequately bonded using grooming alone. It also contends that music served a natural bridge to language as language became inevitable as a mechanism for group bonding and cohesion."

Re: Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)

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Post by amag »

ItsMe000001 wrote: post #19

Anecdote time. Just for background story before I come to the music: I had chronic heavy metal poisoning diagnosed almost a decade ago (fortunately I had all relevant values - hair, blood, urine significantly elevated, usually chronic exposure is much harder to prove). Using chelators for years I got amazing recoveries, for example, for a few months each time after getting a chelator IV (DMPS, DMSA) the area around t…

> By the way, I think we can all agree that the Russian Dance from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is the best piece of music ever written, right?

As great as it is, the one that always gives me the chills the article spoke of is the third movement in Vangelis Mythodea[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHAX_QGHTU

Re: Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)

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Post by jug »

1_player wrote: post #3

It's fascinating that music elicits strong effects on some people, and none whatsoever to others. When I hear someone say "I don't much care about music" it's so hard to understand, as personally I feel it's a direct plug to emotions like none other. I regularly experience frissons when listening to an interesting piece - I've always thought everybody did! - and it can change my mood dramatically and instantly. I alw…

Same; I have called music a shortcut to emotions.

Re: Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)

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Post by p1esk »

amag wrote: post #33
ItsMe000001 wrote: post #19

Anecdote time. Just for background story before I come to the music: I had chronic heavy metal poisoning diagnosed almost a decade ago (fortunately I had all relevant values - hair, blood, urine significantly elevated, usually chronic exposure is much harder to prove). Using chelators for years I got amazing recoveries, for example, for a few months each time after getting a chelator IV (DMPS, DMSA) the area around t…

> By the way, I think we can all agree that the Russian Dance from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake is the best piece of music ever written, right? As great as it is, the one that always gives me the chills the article spoke of is the third movement in Vangelis Mythodea[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHAX_QGHTU

Wow, I didn’t like it at all. Stopped it half way because it was boring. What do you like about it?

Re: Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music (2016)

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Post by dqpb »

hudon wrote: post #5
1_player wrote: post #3

It's fascinating that music elicits strong effects on some people, and none whatsoever to others. When I hear someone say "I don't much care about music" it's so hard to understand, as personally I feel it's a direct plug to emotions like none other. I regularly experience frissons when listening to an interesting piece - I've always thought everybody did! - and it can change my mood dramatically and instantly. I alw…

> has no survival reason? This is going to sound crazy but maybe it does have a survival reason. In societies where music is enjoyed (all major societies today), music has the capacity to not only gather people but also have them experience a shared emotion or thought. Not only that, but music has the capacity to carry a story through time, from generation to generation, and thus the capacity to carry the morals of t…

Survival isn't the only factor in evolution. You also have sexual selection (more people want to mate with you).
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