See—it's even good for your brain to check out new music

[Cupe]

A recent study conducted at Montreal’s McGill University says that the reward center of our brains is stimulated when we hear new music, reports the BBC:

“To carry out the study, which took place at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University, the scientists played 19 volunteers 60 excerpts of new music, based on their musical preferences.

As they were listening to the 30-second-long tracks, they had to the opportunity to buy the ones they liked in a mocked up online music store. All of this was carried out while the participants were lying in an MRI machine.

By analysing the scans, the scientists found that the nucleus accumbens was “lighting up” and depending on the level of activity, the researchers could predict whether the participant was likely to buy a song.”

“What’s cool is that you’re anticipating and getting excited over something entirely abstract —and that’s the next sound that is coming up,” says Dr. Valorie Salimpoor, of Toronto’s Rotman Research Institute. Posted on Beatport.

Read the whole article here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22096764

[BeatLeSS]

Dope as! Would love to be involved in some of those tests hehe.

[overit]

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body."

—Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American author and poet

Without music, life would be a mistake.

—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) German philosopher

"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception." (When asked about his theory of relativity)

—Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) Theoretical physicist

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents."

—Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) German composer

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

—Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) Russian novelist

"Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules get too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion"

—Slash (born 1965) Lead Guitarist, Guns 'n Roses

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

—Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) Greek philosopher

"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies."

—Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician

http://www.uwex.edu/erc/music/quotes.html

[GREMM1S]

And here folks is why djs should stop playing the same shit lol