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Breakthrough in understanding the chills and thrills of musical rapture (2016)
- chmaynard 7y agoHappens to me all the time. And I probably have better orgasms, too. :)
- xchip 7y agowarning: the article fools around but doesn't give an answer...
- thephyber 7y agoGeez -- give a guy a "spoiler alert"!
- dokem 7y agoA man can only take so much.
- dang 7y agoCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, and we're trying for better than that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- whalabi 7y agoIt links to this article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/17/breakthrough-in-understanding-the-chills-and-thrills-of-musical-rapture https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/17/breakthrough... Which has this explanation from a neuroscientist referring to the study in question: > “The two pieces of evidence together indicate that this interaction, between auditory and emotion systems, is the basis for musical pleasure, and that people who get more of a direct “thrill” from music have a stronger connection,” he said.
- dang 7y agoOk, we switched to that from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-look-what-happens-brain-when-music-causes-chills-180959481/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-look-w.... Thanks!
- fenwick67 7y agoThe subtitle on this article is ridiculous: > The brains of people who get chills when the right song comes on are wired differently than others The entirety of your personality and conscious thought are controlled by how your brain is "wired". The structure of your brain and the way your neurons etc interact together is literally "you". This is one of the biggest "duh" pop-sci articles I've seen.
- dokem 7y agoBreaking: People are wired differently than others.
- dr_dshiv 7y agoI'm looking at a dataset now of people listening to 12 music tracks with 1000hz sampling rate 128 channel EEG. We are trying to predict which tracks the 25 people are listening to, based on the EEG. It's a good ML problem. We have accuracy up to 85% when predicting person&track together, falling to 30% when just predicting track. Since we also had people rate enjoyment and familiarity, the main theoretical question is whether there is an direct neural resonance with the music during highly enjoyed tracks. I.e., that more of the brain is coupled to the music when you feel it deeply.
- kranner 7y agoIs this a public dataset?
- ghastmaster 7y agoYou made me consider whether EEG would notice differences when listening to 24bit/192hz vs. 16bit/44.1hz audio. So far the articles I have read only pertain to the logical science and or anecdotal individual double blind tests. Thank you.
- partomniscient 7y agoFor those who haven't heard the term (which isn't in the article or paper), it's also known as Frisson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson