Why Your Brain Craves Music

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If making music isn’t the most ancient of human activities, it’s got to be pretty close. Melody and rhythm can trigger feelings from sadness to serenity to joy to awe; they can bring memories from childhood vividly back to life. The taste of a tiny cake may have inspired Marcel Proust to pen the seven-volume novel Remembrance of Things Past, but fire up the Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction and you’ll throw the entire Baby Boom generation into a Woodstock-era reverie.



Read more: Why Your Brain Craves Music | TIME.com