The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It
Update: 2025-10-04
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Have you ever asked yourself why you love music so much? What’s the science behind that? Why do different people like different types of music? Music has a way of emitting emotions in us that is sometimes unexplainable. Dr. Robert Zatorre, a neuroscientist and expert of musical cognition and its brain mechanisms, joined us to answer these questions and explain how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleasurable responses.
Have you ever asked yourself why you love music so much? What’s the science behind that? Why do different people like different types of music? Music has a way of emitting emotions in us that is sometimes unexplainable. Dr. Robert Zatorre, a neuroscientist and expert of musical cognition and its brain mechanisms, joined us to answer these questions and explain how we get from perception of sound patterns to pleasurable responses.
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