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Music's Impact on Brain Happiness

The document discusses how listening to music you enjoy stimulates the release of dopamine in your brain, causing feelings of happiness. Researchers recruited music lovers and used brain scanning techniques to show dopamine is released in the brain during the anticipation phase of listening to songs that give them pleasure. This provides evidence that the relationship between dopamine and feelings of motivation, reward and pleasure can be studied through the effect of music on the brain.

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Music's Impact on Brain Happiness

The document discusses how listening to music you enjoy stimulates the release of dopamine in your brain, causing feelings of happiness. Researchers recruited music lovers and used brain scanning techniques to show dopamine is released in the brain during the anticipation phase of listening to songs that give them pleasure. This provides evidence that the relationship between dopamine and feelings of motivation, reward and pleasure can be studied through the effect of music on the brain.

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Why

music makes you happy


Knarik Arutyunyan

The eect of music on your brain


Aim understand the
eect that music that
we really like has on
our brain.
Hypothesis - listening
to tunes that move you
sCmulates dopamine, a
feel-good chemical, to
be released.

Method and results


8 music lovers were recruited who brought to the lab
samples of music that gave them chills of pleasure
RadioacCve substance injecCon and PET scanner
fMRI brain scanning showed dopamine release during
the anCcipaCon phase

Discussion
High reliability
High validity
A new way to study
the relaConship
between dopamine
and feelings of
moCvaCon, reward,
and pleasure

References
hMp://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/
music-dopamine-happiness-brain-110110.htm
hMp://freedesignle.com/120877-hand-drawn-
colored-musical-instruments-vector-04/

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