{"id":6656,"date":"2019-07-16T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T10:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/?p=6656"},"modified":"2019-08-14T17:18:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T15:18:32","slug":"if-music-gives-you-goosebumps-youre-pretty-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/en\/if-music-gives-you-goosebumps-youre-pretty-special\/","title":{"rendered":"If music gives you goosebumps, you&#8217;re pretty special"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/skin-418266_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Goosebumps\" class=\"wp-image-6667\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Does it happen to you that you listen to a piece and your body immediately fills up with <strong>thousands of tiny bumps?<\/strong> You wake up and already throw on a song. You feel sad and you listen to music. Music is everywhere you look, and it has completely <strong>filled your life. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No matter what <strong>type of music<\/strong> you listen to, whether you prefer listening to <strong>classical music<\/strong>, or you like to <strong>rock out at <a href=\"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/en\/tinder-levels-up-with-their-new-festival-mode-feature\/\">festivals<\/a><\/strong>, we all have one thing in common: how music <strong>makes us feel<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, some people do feel it <strong>stronger<\/strong> than others. So, if you&#8217;ve ever been told you&#8217;re too &#8220;sensitive&#8221; for<strong> reacting emotionally <\/strong>when listening to music, this might just be your article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"755\" src=\"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/alireza-attari-mp_FNJYcjBM-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"Listening to music\" class=\"wp-image-6669\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Musical stimuli and goosebumps<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing to see how your body <strong>responds to musical stimuli<\/strong>, be it through <strong>goosebumps, shivers or even tears.<\/strong> We often don&#8217;t realize the massive impact music can have on us. Has it ever occurred to you this might <strong>make you special?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A structurally different brain<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>What we feel when faced with a song that tugs on our heart strings has been looked into by<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/journals\/697\/\"><strong>Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience<\/strong><\/a><strong>. <\/strong>According to them, people with such strong responses to music are not just &#8220;emotional&#8221;; they have, <strong>structurally, a completely different brain than the rest.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/curiosifymagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/robina-weermeijer-so1L3jsdD3Y-unsplash.jpg\" alt=\"Brain\" class=\"wp-image-6672\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The auditory cortex<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>These <strong>musically-sensible <\/strong>people have a <strong>different auditory cortex<\/strong>, which <strong>communicates more efficiently<\/strong> with other parts of the brain. The fun part is, that the parts they&#8217;re connected to are the areas associated with <strong>emotional processing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research shows communication is better between those regions because there are a lot of <strong>fibers that connect both areas.<\/strong> These findings shed light on why music is so <strong>essential to human life<\/strong>, and why it has been around for so long. It goes directly through the <strong>auditory channels into the emotional processing<\/strong> <strong>and social parts of the brain.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Images: Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you fill up with goosebumps when a good song comes on, you&#8217;re not &#8220;too sensitive&#8221;, you just have a different brain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[555,714,554],"tags":[1156,924,1155,1154,1030,642],"class_list":{"0":"post-6656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-curious","8":"category-featured-more","9":"category-science","10":"tag-biology","11":"tag-brain","12":"tag-emotions","13":"tag-goosebumps","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-science-2","16":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.8 - 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