Music and Brain Activities
Melody and rhythm can:
- Trigger feelings from sadness to serenity to joy to awe;
- Bring memories from childhood vividly back to life.
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Music triggers activity in the same brain structure that releases the "pleasure chemical" dopamine during sex and eating.
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