When you listen to music, a part of your brain called the nucleus accumbens activates. This triggers the release of the ‘pleasure chemical’ dopamine, that lives in a group of neurons in your brain called the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA).
This pathway in the brain is called the Reward System, and Dopamine is strongly associated with it.
Try out with Bluetooth enabled media devices to sync them with you phone or computer, and listen all loud music on a portable Bluetooth speaker. It is know that music will help you perform better in so many aspects. It will just depend the genre of music you hear.
Dopamine is the same chemical that gets released when you eat your favorite food or when you get a new follower on Twitter, causing you to want more, more, more.
The amount of dopamine that gets released and the feelings of pleasure we get from it are also largely dependent on the element of surprise.
For instance, when you stumble upon a new song that you love, more dopamine is released and you get even more excited than if you were to listen to one of your favorite songs that you’ve heard multiple times.
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