How Does Music Arouse “Chills”?

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Oliver Grewe · Hochschule für Musik Freiburg

Reinhard Kopiez · Hanover University of Music Drama and Media

Abstract

Music can arouse ecstatic "chill" experiences defined as "goose pimples" and as "shivers down the spine." We recorded chills both via subjects' self-reports and physiological reactions, finding that they do not occur in a reflex-like manner, but as a result of attentive, experienced, and conscious musical enjoyment.

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Neuroscience and Music Perception Music Therapy and Health Diverse Music Education Insights

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Published in: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volume 1060, Issue 1, pp. 446-449

DOI: 10.1196/annals.1360.041

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