Scientists Reveal Why Listening To Your Favorite Music Gives You Goosebumps

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JAKARTA - We often listen to our favorite music with goosebumps. It turns out that French scientist Thibault Chabin, a PhD student at the University of Burgundy France-Comte who led the research, found the answer.

Every time we listen to music we like, the brain is responsible for the emotions and transfers of music that work together to form dopamine. Dopamine is a compound in the brain that provides stimulation to the body.

Quoting Metro UK today, November 3, the brain will work to guess what will happen next and when it is true, dopamine will present itself.

"While we are waiting, the brain will work to predict the next and dopamine. When able to predict correctly it will be necessary to survive.

Published through the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, scientist Mr. Chabin asked 18 music lovers to record brain activity via the Electroencephalogram or EEG.

Each participant listens to 90 seconds of their favorite song and sees what happens in the brain when they feel the chills and their brain tries to guess what's going on in the music.

When participants felt the 'goosebumps' effect, Mr Chabin looked at activity in the orbitofrontal cortex, a region that processes emotions as well as an additional motor area - the midbrain that controls movement as well as the right area of the brain that processes hearing.

"The fact that we can measure this phenomenon with the EEG brings the opportunity to study in other contexts, where the design is more natural and between groups."

"Musical desire is an interesting phenomenon that must be investigated, in order to understand why music is so useful and why music is so necessary in human life."