Aquí unos interesantes estudios que confirman algo que muchos ya nos imaginábamos: la música nos hace producir dopamina (algunas canciones -nuestras favoritas- en grandes cantidades).
Que padre. Y qué miedo.
Que padre, porque eso lleva todo al mundo de lo químico, convirtiendo a la música en lo que realmente siempre ha sido: una droga corporal, auto-producida, y “socialmente aceptada”. Sabiendo esto, el soundtrack perfecto para cualquier actividad será el más químicamente efectivo.
Que miedo, porque -sabiendo esto- no sería difícil pensar que en un futuro cercano haya scanners de cerebros (MRI) por todos lados – que analicen que nos mueve (consciente o inconscientemente) y adaptando todo tipo de mensajes a ello, afectando nuestro mundo químico con los mas diversos intereses...
When you listen to a song for the first time, the strength of certain neural connections can predict how much you like the music, according to a new brain scanning study.
A few years ago, Salimpoor and Zatorre performed another type of brain scanning experiment in which participants listened to music that gave them goosebumps or chills. The researchers then injected them with a radioactive tracer that binds to the receptors of dopamine, a chemical that’s involved in motivation and reward. With this technique, called positron emission tomography or PET, the researchers showed that 15 minutes after participants listened to their favorite song, their brains flooded with dopamine.
The dopamine system is old, evolutionarily speaking, and is active in many animals during sex and eating. “But animals don’t get intense pleasures to music,” Salimpoor says. “So we knew there had to be a lot more to it.”
In the new experiment, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to track real-time brain activity as participants listened to the first 30 seconds of 60 unfamiliar songs. To quantify how much they liked the music, participants were given the chance to buy the full version of each song — with their own money! — using a computer program resembling iTunes. The program was set up like an auction, so participants would choose how much they were willing to spend on the song, with bids ranging from $0 to $2…
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Music = Dopaminie
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