Why Your Brain Craves Music
This article is about why we desire to listen to music. Music is an ancient tradition that exists in every culture. Music can cause powerful emotional reactions. It triggers activity in the same part of the brain that releases "pleasure chemicals" while eating and during sex. The article references experiments "that suggests that people get not just a sensory reward from listening to music, but a direct intellectual one too." The article concludes discussing how our response to music is correlated with our ability to imagine, a very important part of the evolution of humans.I'm not sure exactly how I will illustrate this, though I have a few ideas. I will probably use a photograph of my own hand. Possibly grasping a musical note or something else.
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