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Music directly influences emotions because it bypasses much of our conscious filtering and speaks straight to the brain’s ancient emotional circuits.Key mechanisms:Rhythm entrains brainwaves and bodily movements, creating instant feelings of energy or calm.
Melody, harmony and tempo activate the limbic system (amygdala, hippocampus) and release dopamine when we hear expected resolutions or surprises.
Pitch and timbre trigger fast emotional appraisal—high pitch often signals alertness/fear, low pitch signals power/sadness.
Music mimics vocal expressions of emotion (prosody), so the brain interprets it almost as another person’s feeling state.
It engages the autonomic nervous system, changing heart rate, breathing and skin conductance within seconds.
This combination makes music one of the fastest, most universal emotion regulators humans have.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092808/
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