The document discusses several studies on the neurological responses to music. It summarizes that listening to expressive musical performances compared to mechanical performances activates reward pathways in the brain. Experienced listeners report more chills than inexperienced listeners. The mirror neuron system is also activated when listening to music, correlating with tempo fluctuations. Chills experienced while listening to music tend to cluster in certain parts and are highly reproducible, requiring intrinsic knowledge of the music.

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4. Identical
music
S1
Rachmaninoff Barber
Barber Rachmaninoff
S2
Blood & Zatorre, PNAS, 2001

5. chills correlate with reward circuit activity
Blood & Zatorre, PNAS, 2001

6. Dopamine Release
Salimpoor et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2011

9. Musical Taste
preference
complexity

10. Does performance matter?
Expressive
Mechanical

11. Expressive > Mechanical
Experienced > Inexperienced Listeners
Chapin et al., PlosOne 2010

12. Mirror Neuron System
Bangert et al., Neuroimage, 2006

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15. Activation correlating with tempo fluctuations during expressive music

16. •Chills tend to be clustered in one part of
the music
•Highly reproducible
•Intrinsic (but not necessarily explicit)
knowledge of the music is important
•Grewe et al, Music Perception, 2007