People Respond to Music Even When They Can’t Hear It
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🗓️ 11 January 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about why you can have an emotional reaction to music even when it’s not being played; how people have been performing brain surgery for thousands of years; and why some bathroom light switches are outside the room.
People can have emotional reactions to music even when it's not being played by Kelsey Donk
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People Have Been Performing Brain Surgery for Thousands of Years by Reuben Westmaas
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Why Are Some Bathroom Light Switches Outside of the Room? by Ashley Hamer
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:05.2 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why |
| 0:09.8 | you can have an emotional reaction to music even when it's not being played, how people have been |
| 0:14.8 | performing brain surgery for thousands of years, and why some bathroom light switches are outside |
| 0:20.9 | the room. |
| 0:21.9 | What's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:24.6 | Enjoying music is about a lot more than the music itself. |
| 0:29.3 | I mean, you'll probably enjoy a song more if it reminds you of high school or if you can name all the |
| 0:35.2 | band members or if you just really have a thing for a guitar solos. |
| 0:39.7 | Looking at you, sweet child of mine. Well new study shows just how far those non-musical |
| 0:45.6 | judgments can go. It found that people can have emotional reactions to music even when |
| 0:51.6 | it's not being played at all. |
| 0:54.0 | For this study, researchers from Flanders University in Australia |
| 0:58.6 | set out to test how these types of extra musical associations influenced people's emotional responses. |
| 1:05.6 | The head participants simply read lyrics from songs in different music genres |
| 1:10.3 | with no music involved. but there was a twist. |
| 1:14.0 | Some of the genre labels were real, and some were fake. |
| 1:18.0 | After reading the lyrics, the participants again had to name an emotional response. A lot of the time the |
| 1:25.0 | participants emotional responses depended on how the lyrics were labeled. So in |
| 1:30.8 | other words people responded to the same lyrics differently when they were labeled as |
| 1:35.7 | folk music than when they were labeled as hard rock. And those responses closely matched |
| 1:42.2 | their responses to real musical examples the researchers played them at the beginning. |
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