Aesthetically pleasing music triggers piloerection or goosebumps through emotional neurochemistry
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Aesthetically pleasing music frequently triggers physiological responses like piloerection, commonly known as chills or goosebumps, mediated by emotional processing and reward networks in the brain.
Evidence for · 5
Listening To Music As A Re-Creative Process: Physiological, Psychological, And Psychoacoustical Correlates Of Chills And Strong Emotions
2007 · cited by 190
Explores physiological and emotional correlates of music-induced chills and strong emotions.
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Getting aesthetic chills from music: The connection between openness to experience and frisson
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Investigates the connection between personality traits like openness and the physiological measurement of musical frisson or chills.
Music-Evoked Emotions-Current Studies.
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Discusses music-evoked emotions, neuroendocrine markers, and goosebump development (piloerection) as dynamic emotional responses.
A survey into the experience of musically induced chills: Emotions, situations and music
2018 · cited by 34
Analyzes musically induced chills accompanied by gooseflesh and shivers as aesthetic emotional phenomena.
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement are reflected in resting-state fMRI connectivity: Implications for stress resilience.
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Examines individual differences in aesthetic engagement and reported proneness to aesthetic chills through neural connectivity.