{"id":162,"date":"2015-03-06T18:51:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T18:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2015-11-30T02:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T02:43:15","slug":"music-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/?p=162","title":{"rendered":"Music &#038; The Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_165\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Artist-Baptiste-Alchourroun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-image-165 size-full\" title=\"Artist- Baptiste Alchourroun\" src=\"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Artist-Baptiste-Alchourroun.jpg\" alt=\"Artist- Baptiste Alchourroun\" width=\"244\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist- Baptiste Alchourroun<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Summary of NY Times article, \u201cWhy Music Makes Our Brain Sing\u201d by Robert J. Zatorre and Valorie N. Salimpoor. (June 7, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Music has been cherished within human culture since Paleolithic times. We know that music is pleasurable, but what is it beyond pleasure that entices us so? A study by neuroscientists Anne J. Blood and Robert J. Zatorre shows that the human brain responds to music with a release of dopamine and oxytocin. These hormones yield feelings of happiness, wellness, joy, trust, reward, and motivation. The release of these hormones often leads to the feeling of \u201cchills down the spine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Links:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/why-music-makes-our-brain-sing.html?referrer=&amp;_r=0\" href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/why-music-makes-our-brain-sing.html?referrer=&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2013\/06\/09\/opinion\/sunday\/why-music-makes-our-brain-sing.html?referrer=&amp;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PhotocreditStefanGossati-and-artist-Willem-Heyneker.jpg\">(http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/98\/20\/11818.full)<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_166\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PhotocreditStefanGossati-and-artist-Willem-Heyneker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-image-166 size-full\" title=\"Photo credit Stefan Gossati and artist Willem Heyneker\" src=\"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PhotocreditStefanGossati-and-artist-Willem-Heyneker.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit Stefan Gossati and artist Willem Heyneker\" width=\"564\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PhotocreditStefanGossati-and-artist-Willem-Heyneker.jpg 564w, http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/PhotocreditStefanGossati-and-artist-Willem-Heyneker-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Stefan Gossati and artist Willem Heyneker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of NY Times article, \u201cWhy Music Makes Our Brain Sing\u201d by Robert J. Zatorre and Valorie N. Salimpoor. (June 7, 2013) Music has been cherished within human culture since Paleolithic times. We know that music is pleasurable, but what is it beyond pleasure that entices us so? A study by neuroscientists Anne J. Blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12,11,5,8,10,7,6,3,4],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kathleenwestfall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}